Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced from plants of the pepper family or from piperine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.
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Examples
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_Piperine_ has also been made by the uniting of piperidine and piperic acid, and, as piperidine has already been formed from pyridine, we have here a true synthesis also.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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When boiled with alcoholic potash solution, it takes up a molecule of water and splits apart into piperic acid, C_ {12} H_ {10} O_ {4}, and piperidine,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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