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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ὀδμή (odmḗ, stench) +‎ -yl.

Noun

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odmyl (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry, archaic) A volatile liquid with an unpleasant garlic odour, obtained by boiling sulfur with linseed oil.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for odmyl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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