calendulin

English

Etymology

Noun

calendulin (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A gummy or mucilaginous substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “calendulin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)