meconin
English edit
Etymology edit
meconic + -in? Compare French méconine.
Noun edit
meconin (uncountable)
- (chemistry) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, found in opium.
Usage notes edit
- Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though an alkaloid.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “meconin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)