onocerin

English

Etymology

Latin Ononis, the generic name of the plant + Latin cera (“wax”).

Noun

onocerin (plural onocerins)

  1. (organic chemistry) A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant spiny restharrow (Ononis spinosa).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “onocerin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

  • onocerane

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