peucedanin

See also: peucédanin

English edit

Etymology edit

Peucedanum +‎ -in

Noun edit

peucedanin (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A tasteless white crystalline substance extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and related plants (tribe Selineae).

Synonyms edit

imperatorin

Derived terms edit

oxypeucedanin

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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