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Etymology

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moringa +‎ -ic + acid.

Noun

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moringic acid (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) An organic acid obtained from ben oil (from the seeds of the moringa).

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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