oil of cloves

1. 1.

   essential oil obtained from cloves and used to flavor medicines

   Synonymsclove oil

   Broaderessential oil

Questions about oil of cloves

What does oil of cloves mean?

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

What is another word for oil of cloves?

Close synonyms include clove oil. 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 oil of cloves a common word?

oil of cloves 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.