lactucic acid

English

Etymology

From translingual Lactuca + -ic + acid.

Noun

lactucic acid (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) Any of various acids derived from the juice of Lactuca virosa.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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