ŏm'phā-cīne, a.

(ōm'fā-sīn), a. [Fr. omphacin, Gr. ὀμφάκινος, from ὄμφαξ, an unripe grape or olive.] Pertaining to, or expressed from, unripe fruit. Omphacine oil, or omphacine, a viscous brown juice extracted from green olives, with which the wrestlers in the ancient gymnastic exercises used to anoint their bodies.