calamine
pronunciation
How to pronounce calamine in British English:
UK [ˈkæləmaɪn]
How to pronounce calamine in American English:
US [ˈkæləˌmaɪn, -mɪn]
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- Noun:
- a white mineral; a common ore of zinc
Word Origin
- calamine (n.)
- zinc carbonate; zinc silicate, 1590s, from French calamine, from Old French calemine, chalemine (13c.), from Medieval Latin calamina, corrupted by alchemists from Latin cadmia "zinc ore," from Greek kadmeia (see cadmium). Or possibly the Medieval Latin word is from Latin calamus "reed," in reference to the mineral's shape.
Example
- 1. Go to the hospital , opened the calamine .
- 2. She applied calamine lotion to her sunburn .
- 3. Compound calamine lotion ; preparation ; quantity control ; clinical application .
- 4. Using zinc oxide , the main ingredient in calamine lotion , young jun park , sang-woo kim and their colleagues created a field of nanowires sandwiched between two electrodes .
- 5. Objective to evaluate the effect of calamine and menthol lotion in treating local red miliaria in children .