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noun
An oil found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, causing an allergic skin rash on contact; consists of a variable mixture of several related organic compounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: toxicodendrol
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Japanese 漆 (うるし, urushi, “lacquer tree”) + -ol (“oil”).
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
