roccellic acid
English
editEtymology
editFrom French roccellique, from roccelle (“archil”), from Italian roccella, from rocca (“a rock”), because archil grows on rock.
Noun
edit- (chemistry) A dibasic acid, C17H32O4, of the oxalic series, found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “roccellic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)