Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bitter principle of the privet, Ligustrum vulgare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet
(Ligustrum vulgare) , and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; -- called alsoligustron .
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- noun organic chemistry A
bitter principle found in thebark of theprivet (Ligustrum vulgare).
Etymologies
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Ligustrum + -in
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