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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The group C4H5O6 or a salt of tartaric acid containing it.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tartrate which contains one hydrogen atom replaceable by a base.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry hydrogen tartrate (univalent salt of tartaric acid)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate

Etymologies

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bi- +‎ tartrate

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