cerasin

English

Etymology

Latin cerasus +‎ -in, from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“cherry tree”).

Noun

cerasin (usually uncountable, plural cerasins)

(organic chemistry) A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; meta-arabinic acid.
(organic chemistry) A gummy mucilaginous substance; bassorin or tragacanthin.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

arsenic, carnies, scarine, carines, scenari, Racines, sarcine, Cairnes, arcsine, Serican