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Etymology

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Blend of toluic +‎ uric + acid.

Noun

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toluric acid (plural toluric acids)

  1. (chemistry) Any of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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