Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A compound, formed by heating coumarilic acid with lime or coumarin dibromide with alcoholic potash. It is an oil which boils at 172° C.
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- noun organic chemistry The
bicyclic heterocycle benzofuran .
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- noun a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[coumar(in) + –one.]
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