ilicic acid

English

Etymology

From Latin ilex, ilicis (“holm oak”).

Noun

(organic chemistry) An acid derived from the holly (Ilex) and allied plants.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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