Looking for sentences and phrases with the word castoreum? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
An indigenous species, they were hunted to extinction for their fur – used primarily to make hats – their meat and their castoreum, a secretion that was used in medicines.
Examples from Classical Literature
At length an Indian tried whether a male might not be caught by adding some of the castoreum.
Next in importance to its skin, the beaver was valued for the castoreum it yielded.
You have denied that the vesicles of the otter are equivalent to castoreum.
From the strength of the castoreum, the Siberians infer that other parts of the animal must possess peculiar virtues.
The Indians also highly prized the castoreum of the beaver for its supposed medicinal properties.
They mix the castoreum with a red colour, and with it rub their face and frequently their hair.
Another time a beaver, passing over a trap to get the castoreum, had his hind-leg broken.
Of the infatuation of this animal for castoreum he saw several instances.
That other whiff of animal in your perfume could be musk secreted from the sheath gland of the musk deer or a dash of castoreum from glands in the groin of the beaver.
