cyclamin

English

Noun

cyclamin (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A white amorphous substance, originally regarded as a glucoside but now known to be a triterpenoid glycoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen purpurascens.[1]

References

  1. ^ Jeffrey B. Harborne (10 September 1996) Dictionary of Plant Toxins‎[1], Wiley, →ISBN
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