columbic acid
English
Etymology
columbo + -ic + acid
Noun
columbic acid (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) An acid extracted from the columbo root as a bitter, yellow, amorphous substance.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for columbic acid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)