Mothbally
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mothbally is an adjective meaning Resembling or suggesting mothballs, especially their distinctive odour.
Meaning
Resembling or suggesting mothballs, especially their distinctive odour.
Example Sentences
A skinny blotter paper suffused with the rosy chemical geraniol and layered with a second blotter dipped in mothbally indole yields lily of the valley, which otherwise would require bales of tender white buds for just a few grams of essential oil.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mothy, mothlike, moleish, musty, musky, miasmalike.
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