"menthol" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɛnθɒl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-menthol.wav [Southern-England] Forms: menthols [plural]
Etymology: From Latin mentha (“mint”) + -ol. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|mentha||mint}} Latin mentha (“mint”), {{suffix|en||ol}} + -ol Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} menthol (countable and uncountable, plural menthols)
  1. (organic chemistry) A cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Organic compounds Categories (lifeform): Mints Translations (cyclic monoterpene alcohol): mentol [masculine] (Catalan), 薄荷醇 (bòhé chún) (Chinese Mandarin), mentol [masculine] (Czech), mentol (Danish), menthol [masculine] (Dutch), mentolo (Esperanto), mentoli (Finnish), Menthol [neuter] (German), μινθόλη (minthóli) [neuter] (Greek), μενθόλη (menthóli) (Greek), μεντόλ (mentól) (Greek), mentolo [masculine] (Italian), メントール (mentōru) (Japanese), 薄荷脳 (hakkanō) (Japanese), mentol [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), mentol [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), mentol [masculine] (Polish), mentol [masculine] (Portuguese), менто́л (mentól) [masculine] (Russian), mentol [masculine] (Spanish), mentol [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-menthol-en-noun-AmzAnssi Disambiguation of Mints: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 45 55 Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'cyclic monoterpene alcohol': 90 10
  2. A menthol cigarette. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Mints
    Sense id: en-menthol-en-noun-uFx9kRvJ Disambiguation of Mints: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ol Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 45 55 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ol: 38 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dextromenthol, isomenthol, levomenthol, neomenthol, racementhol

Inflected forms

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