COUMARIN


Meaning of COUMARIN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkü-mə-rən ]

noun

Etymology: French coumarine, from coumarou tonka bean tree, from Spanish or Portuguese; Spanish cumarú, from Portuguese, from Tupi *kumarú, *kumbarú

Date: 1830

: a toxic white crystalline lactone C 9 H 6 O 2 with an odor of new-mown hay found in plants or made synthetically and used especially in perfumery and as a parent compound in anticoagulant agents ; also : a derivative of this compound

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