oxaluric acid

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English

Etymology

From oxalyl and uric.

Noun

oxaluric acid (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) A complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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