- Mint-tasting compound - A white, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling
camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); -- called also mint
camphor or peppermint camphor.
- Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic. - A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel
wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or
flatulence.
- Of, pertaining to, or designating, a tribasic acid,
C6H3.(CO2)3, of the aromatic series, obtained, by the oxidation of
mesitylene, as a white crystalline substance.
- A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and
the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline
substance; -- called also diphenyl acetylene.