oleoresin
oleoresin noun: a homogeneous mix of essential oil and resin.
Noun
oleoresin (countable and uncountable, plural oleoresins)
- A homogeneous mix of essential oil and resin.
- Pine oleoresin is a complex mixture of about 30 to 50 different terpene molecules, comprised chiefly of diterpene resin acids and monoterpene essential oils, which impart different physical and biotic properties (Zinkel and Russell 1989).2007, Shibu Jose, Eric J. Jokela, Deborah L. Miller, editors, The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology, Silviculture, and Restoration, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43
oleoresin meaning in Tamil
oleoresin in Tamil
- குங்கிலியம்
Forms of oleoresin
| plural | oleoresins |
|---|
Origin of oleoresin
From oleo- + resin.
Words formed from oleoresin
Questions about oleoresin
- What does oleoresin mean?
- Oleoresin means a homogeneous mix of essential oil and resin.
- What is oleoresin in Tamil?
- Oleoresin in Tamil is குங்கிலியம். See Oleoresin meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is oleoresin?
- Oleoresin is a noun.
- What is the plural of oleoresin?
- The plural of oleoresin is oleoresins.
Words near oleoresin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: oleoresin (page history and authors); oleoresin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “oleoresin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oleoresin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.