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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pyr"eth*rin\, n. [NL. Pyrethrum, generic name of
feverfew, Gr. ? feverfew.] (Chem.)
A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor,
and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called
also {Pyrethrum camphor}.
 

 

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