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What does castoreum mean?

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Noun
  1. The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers.
  2. (archaic) A hat made from beaver fur.
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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.
Another time a beaver, passing over a trap to get the castoreum, had his hind-leg broken.
They mix the castoreum with a red colour, and with it rub their face and frequently their hair.
You have denied that the vesicles of the otter are equivalent to castoreum.
Next in importance to its skin, the beaver was valued for the castoreum it yielded.

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