rose oil

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   a volatile fragrant oil obtained from fresh roses by steam distillation

   Synonymsattar of roses

   Broaderattar

Questions about rose oil

What does rose oil mean?

rose oil means "a volatile fragrant oil obtained from fresh roses by steam distillation".

What is another word for rose oil?

Close synonyms include attar of roses. 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 rose oil a common word?

rose 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.