omphacine
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὄμφαξ (ómphax, “unripe fruit, especially grapes”): compare French omphacin.
Adjective
omphacine (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or expressed from unripe fruit.
- omphacine oil
- 1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Adders Tongue”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: Printed by Peter Cole, […], OCLC 863539962, page 1, column 1:
- The Leaves infuſed or boyled in Oyl Omphacine, or unripe Olives ſet in the Sun for certain daies, or the green Leaves ſufficiently boyled in the said Oyl, is made an excellent green Balſom, not only for green and freſh Wounds, but alſo for old and inveterate Ulcers, […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for omphacine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)