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English
Etymology
From antho- + Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + -in.
Noun
antholeucin (uncountable)
- (botany, obsolete) A substance isolated from flowers and thought to act as a white pigment.
1886, S. H. Vines, “Lecture XII”, in Lectures on the Physiology of Plants, page 242:The dissolved colouring-matters are, in white flowers, antholeucin, in blue anthocyanin.
1889 December, J. H. Pillsbury, “Biological Notes”, in The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, volume 10, number 12, page 276:This in the case of yellow flowers is anthoxanthin; of white flowers, antholeucin; of blue flowers, anthocyanin, etc.
1920, John Arthur Thomson, Biology of the Seasons, page 92:There is such a thing as white flower-pigment (antholeucin), but in most cases the petals or sepals are white, just as foam is white, because of innumerable gas-bubbles in the cells.