Definitions for castoreum

castoreum cas·tor·e·um

Spelling: [ka-stawr-ee-uh m, -stohr-]
IPA: /kæˈstɔr i əm, -ˈstoʊr-/

Castoreum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 909 anagrams from letters in castoreum (acemorstu).

Definitions for castoreum

noun

  1. castor1 (def 1).

Origin of castoreum

Latin Greek kastórion, equivalent to kastor- (stem of kástōr) beaver + -ion, neuter of -ios adj. suffix

Examples for castoreum

Next in importance to its skin, the beaver was valued for the castoreum it yielded.

Another time a beaver, passing over a trap to get the castoreum, had his hind-leg broken.

From the strength of the castoreum, the Siberians infer that other parts of the animal must possess peculiar virtues.

castoreum was the most popular of these, and from it was compounded the great cure-all.

The Indians also highly prized the castoreum of the beaver for its supposed medicinal properties.

Of the infatuation of this animal for castoreum he saw several instances.

They mix the castoreum with a red colour, and with it rub their face and frequently their hair.

At length an Indian tried whether a male might not be caught by adding some of the castoreum.

You have denied that the vesicles of the otter are equivalent to castoreum.

castoreum has done good in this as in spasmodic dysmenorrhea.

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