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Its odour is strong, aromatic, and peculiar; taste, pungent and acrid. Like all substances whose virtue depends upon essential oil, it is stimulant and carminative. It is generally used as a corrigent to other remedies, and in oases where substances containing the essential oils are demanded. The oil- (F.)

Clove tree; indigenous to the Moluccas. The unexpanded flowers and dried flower buds are the cloves of the U. S. Ph. and Br. Ph.