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camphory

camphory adjective: smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.

Adjective

camphory (comparative more camphory, superlative most camphory)

  1. Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.
    • "Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory."1879, Barnet Phillips, Burning Their Ships, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 45
    • Father had a splendid chest of camphor-wood which had come from England round the Horn in a sailing-ship with him. His clean clothes lived in it and on Sunday he was very camphory.1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC

Forms of camphory

comparativemore camphory
superlativemost camphory

Origin of camphory

From camphor + -y.

Questions about camphory

What does camphory mean?
Camphory means smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.
What part of speech is camphory?
Camphory is an adjective.

Words near camphory in the dictionary

  1. camphorsulphonic acids
  2. camphorsultam
  3. camphorweed
  4. camphorweeds
  5. camphorwood
  6. camphory
  7. camphoryl
  8. camphoryls
  9. camphretic acid
  10. camphrous
  11. campi

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