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usually uncountable, plural calamines
Synonym of smithsonite, a pink form of zinc oxide (mainly zinc carbonate ZnCO3) formed as a byproduct of zinc sublimation, now used in skin lotions. quotations examples
Poison Ivy, Lord,'ll make you itchYou're gonna need an oceanOf calamine lotionYou'll be scratchin' like a houndThe minute you start to mess around
1959, “Poison Ivy”, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (lyrics), performed by The Coasters
For Secret Santa two years before, she had gifted him a bottle of calamine lotion.
2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(mineralogy) Synonym of hemimorphite, an orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing zinc. examples
third-person singular simple present calamines, present participle calamining, simple past and past participle calamined
(transitive) To coat or treat with calamine. examples