What does camphory mean?
Camphory means Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor..
"Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory."
Father had a splendid chest of camphor-wood which had come from England round the Horn in a sailing-ship with him. His clean clothes lived in it and on Sunday he was very camphory.
In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent.
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Camphory means Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor..
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"Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory."
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