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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yellow crystallizable coloring matter (C20H20O10) contained in the bark of the alder-buckthorn, Rhamnus Frangula, and other species of the same genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (
Rhamnus Frangula ) of the buckthorn; -- called alsorhamnoxanthin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
yellow crystalline dyestuff extracted from a species ofbuckthorn , Rhamnus frangula.
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frangula + -in
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