1. a pink liquid that you put on burnt or painful skin to make it hurt less
   Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin calamina, alteration of Latin cadmia ‘calamine’, from Greek kadmeia (gÄ“) ‘Cadmean (earth)’, from Kadmos ‘Cadmus’, the founder of Thebes in Greek mythology.

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