phillyrin

English

Etymology

From Phillyrea +‎ -in.

Noun

phillyrin (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A glucoside extracted from species of Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance, sometimes used as a febrifuge.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 phillyrin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)