violaquercitrin
English
editEtymology
editFrom Viola + quercitrin.
Noun
editviolaquercitrin (uncountable)
- (chemistry) A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor) and decomposable into glucose and quercitrin.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “violaquercitrin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)