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‖ cajuput|ˈkædʒəpət|
Also cajeput, cajaput.
[Ultimately a. Malay kayu-putih i.e. kayu wood + puteh white (whence also the spec. name leucodendron). The Eng. spelling, and F. cajeput, are due to the Dutch transliteration of the Malay, kajoepoetih, and mod.L. cajuputi (with j = y). The Malay name has passed into the vernaculars of Southern India as kaya-puteh, kaya-poote, etc.]
1. cajuput tree: one or more species of Melaleuca (family Myrtaceæ), esp. M. minor (Cajuputi), and M. leucodendron, natives of the Eastern Archipelago and New Holland, and introduced in India.
1876Harley Mat. Med. 610 The Cajuput Tree has been distributed over the whole of India.
2. cajuput oil: the aromatic oil obtained from these trees, used in medicine as a stimulant, antispasmodic, and sudorific.
1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xv. (ed. 3) 145 [In 1831] cajeput oil was sold..at 7d. per ounce. a1845Hood To Mr. Malthus vii, Doors all shut, On hinges oil'd with cajeput. 1866Treas. Bot. 728 The leaves..are distilled for the purpose of yielding the oil known as Cajuput or Cajeput oil, which is green, and has a powerful aromatic odour.
3. Also applied to a Californian tree, Oreodaphne californica (family Lauraceæ).
Hence cajuputene, cajputene, Chem., ‘C10H16 the hydrocarbon of which oil of cajuput is the hydrate’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1863–72Watts Dict. Chem. I. 711 Cajputene is obtained, together with two isomeric hydrocarbons, isocajputene and paracajputene. 1876Harley Mat. Med. 611 Oil of Cajuput consists chiefly of hydrate of cajuputene. |