meconin
English
editEtymology
editFrom meconic + -in? Compare French méconine.
Noun
editmeconin (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.
Translations
editPart 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)