frangulin
English
Etymology
frangula + -in
Noun
frangulin (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A yellow crystalline dyestuff extracted from a species of buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula.
Synonyms
- rhamnoxanthin
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 frangulin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)