amber oil

noun

1

: a pale yellow to brownish essential oil of empyreumatic odor and acrid taste made by destructive distillation of amber

2

: a light essential oil obtained by destructive distillation of rosin

Word History

First Known Use

1738, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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