scyllite

English

Noun

scyllite (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A substance resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose, extracted from the kidney of the dogfish, the shark, and the skate.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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