erythrophleine
English
editEtymology
editFrom Erythrophleum + -ine.
Noun
editerythrophleine (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A white crystalline alkaloid extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum suaveolens).
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “erythrophleine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)