Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

camphory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cam-phory
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.

Example Sentences

""Here are cigars—some of your old ones. I found them in a trunk of mine, inside a camel's-hair shawl. You said they would keep the moths out. Don't you remember?" Kate was very voluble just here. ¶ "They must be camphory.""
"Father had a splendid chest of camphor-wood which had come from England round the Horn in a sailing-ship with him. His clean clothes lived in it and on Sunday he was very camphory."
"In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent."

Etymology

From camphor + -y.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: camphor
Suffix: -y

Inflected Forms

more camphory (comparative) most camphory (superlative)

Questions

What does camphory mean?: Smelling of camphor; having a smell resembling that of camphor.
Where does camphory come from?: From camphor + -y.

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