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Webster 1913 Edition

Omphacine

Om′pha-cine

,
Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK], from [GREEK] an unripe grape or olive: cf. F.
omphacin
.]
Of, pertaining to, or expressed from, unripe fruit;
as,
omphacine
oil
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Omphacine

OM'PHACINE

,
Adj.
[Gr. from unripe fruit.]
Pertaining to or expressed from unripe fruit. Omphacine oil is a viscous brown juice extracted from green olives. With this the wrestlers in the ancient gymnastic exercises used to anoint their bodies.

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