camphor tree
noun
: a large Asian evergreen tree (Camphora officinarum) of the laurel family grown in warm regions
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Common culprits are menthol (a substance found in mint plants), camphor (a waxy substance from the camphor tree), benzocaine (commonly used as a pain reliever and often found in cough medicine) and beeswax.
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Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2024
Advertisement Basically, Solberg said, except for the creeping fig lacing the chimney and the giant camphor tree on the parkway in front, any plants in the ground of their new landscape are California native plants; others, like his succulents and dwarf lemon, are planted in pots.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
The area’s extraordinary natural features, which also include a sprawling 1,500-year-old camphor tree, the largest in Japan, have famously inspired art of equal beauty.
—Mihoko Iida Josh Robenstone Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Takashi Kobayashi asks, 30 feet or so up a camphor tree growing in the cramped back lot of a shop in Tokyo.
—Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
Hsien-Seng also developed a technique for extracting oil from a camphor tree, a substance that has been used to make topical painkillers, cleaners and perfumes.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
Hyatt mixed this collodion with camphor (derived from the camphor tree) and found that the product was strong yet moldable.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
Now Rojas prayed with Martinez’s mother and father, standing beneath the interlaced branches of a camphor tree.
—Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2020
The dusk gave way to night when the cab driver dropped me off under our big camphor trees.
—Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2020
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Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2024
Advertisement Basically, Solberg said, except for the creeping fig lacing the chimney and the giant camphor tree on the parkway in front, any plants in the ground of their new landscape are California native plants; others, like his succulents and dwarf lemon, are planted in pots.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
The area’s extraordinary natural features, which also include a sprawling 1,500-year-old camphor tree, the largest in Japan, have famously inspired art of equal beauty.
—Mihoko Iida Josh Robenstone Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Takashi Kobayashi asks, 30 feet or so up a camphor tree growing in the cramped back lot of a shop in Tokyo.
—Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
Hsien-Seng also developed a technique for extracting oil from a camphor tree, a substance that has been used to make topical painkillers, cleaners and perfumes.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
Hyatt mixed this collodion with camphor (derived from the camphor tree) and found that the product was strong yet moldable.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
Now Rojas prayed with Martinez’s mother and father, standing beneath the interlaced branches of a camphor tree.
—Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2020
The dusk gave way to night when the cab driver dropped me off under our big camphor trees.
—Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2020
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