English

edit

Etymology

edit

From meta- +‎ pectic + acid.

Noun

edit

metapectic acid (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) A supposed acid obtained from pectin.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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