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ozmazome

ozmazome is the alternative form of osmazome.

Meaning of osmazome

Noun

osmazome (uncountable)

  1. (dated) A substance formerly supposed to impart the characteristic meaty smell and taste to certain dishes.
    • The greatest service chemistry has rendered to alimentary science, is the discovery of osmazome, or rather the determination of what it was. […] Osmazome, discovered after having been so long the delight of our fathers, may be compared to alcohol, which made whole generations drunk before it was...1854, Fayette Robinson, transl., The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy, translation of Physiologie du goût by Brillat-Savarin

Questions about ozmazome

What is ozmazome the alternative form of?
Ozmazome is the alternative form of osmazome.

Words near ozmazome in the dictionary

  1. Ozimkova
  2. Ozimov
  3. Ozimova
  4. Ozite
  5. Ozites
  6. ozmazome
  7. ozobranchid
  8. ozobranchids
  9. ozobrome
  10. ozobromes
  11. ozocerite

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