gelseminic acid

English edit

Noun edit

(organic chemistry) An acid derived from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) and resembling esculin.

See also edit

gelsemine

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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