bassorin

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English

Etymology

From Bassora +‎ -in.

Noun

bassorin (usually uncountable, plural bassorins)

  1. (organic chemistry) An amylose that is a constituent part of a species of gum from Basra ( <= Bassora), tragacanth, and some gum resins.
    • 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
      The Agaricus fætens, according to Taci, contains mannite, water, pectic acid, fibrin, bassorin, ligneons and colouring matter

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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