calamine
noun/ˈkæləmaɪn/
/ˈkæləmaɪn/
(also calamine lotion)
[uncountable]- a pink liquid that you put on burnt or painful skin to make it hurt lessWord Originlate Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin calamina, alteration of Latin cadmia ‘calamine’, from Greek kadmeia (gē) ‘Cadmean (earth)’, from Kadmos ‘Cadmus’, the founder of Thebes in Greek mythology.
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