clove oil

1. 1.

   essential oil obtained from cloves and used to flavor medicines

   Synonymsoil of cloves

   Broaderessential oil

Questions about clove oil

What does clove oil mean?

clove oil means "essential oil obtained from cloves and used to flavor medicines".

What is another word for clove oil?

Close synonyms include oil of cloves. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clove oil a common word?

clove oil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.