helicin
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See also: hélicin
English
Etymology
Noun
helicin (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A glucoside obtained by partial oxidation of salicin from willows of species Salix purpurea (syn. Salix helix).
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “helicin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)