See Also: aromatical(medicine)

malicious (oh) and aromatical (medicine)


malicious (oh)



very unkind and cruel, and deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset or hurt someone
::a spiteful and malicious girl
malicious gossip/rumour
::I think I know who is responsible for these malicious rumours.
-- maliciously adv
-- maliciousness n [U]

aromatical (medicine)


aromatical


1. Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odouriferous; as, aromatic balsam.

2. <chemistry> Aromatic compound, one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camphors, etc, many of which have an aromatic odour. They include many of the most important of the carbon compounds and may all be derived from the benzene group, C6H6. The term is extended also to many of their Derivatives.

See: Aroma.

Origin: L. Aromaticus, Gr., cf. F. Aromatique.