Carvone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin carui (“caraway”) + -one, from Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā)).

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essential oil

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