costus oil

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   a yellow volatile essential oil obtained from costusroot; used in perfumes

   Broaderessential oil

Questions about costus oil

What does costus oil mean?

costus oil means "a yellow volatile essential oil obtained from costusroot; used in perfumes".

Is costus oil a common word?

costus oil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.