sycoceryl
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “a fig”) + κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -yl.
Noun
editsycoceryl (uncountable)
- (chemistry) A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sycoceryl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)