bombic acid
English
editEtymology
editLatin bombyx (“silk, silkworm”): compare French bombique.
Noun
edit- (organic chemistry, biochemistry) An acid obtained from the silkworm.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “bombic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)