castor sac

English

Alternative forms

• castor-sac

Noun

castor sac (plural castor sacs)

1. an organ of a beaver releasing a secretion for refining the animal’s fell, popular in perfumery as under the name castoreum, and formerly in medicine

Translations

beaver’s castoreum organ

• Finnish: hausta
• German: Biberbeutel m, Castorbeutel m
• Swedish: bävergäll (sv) c