omphacine

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OM'PHACINE, adjective [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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