ELLAGIC ACID


Meaning of ELLAGIC ACID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˈla-jik-, e- ]

noun

Etymology: French ellagique, from ellag, anagram of galle gall

Date: 1810

: a crystalline phenolic compound C 14 H 6 O 8 with two lactone groupings that is obtained especially from oak galls and some tannins and is used medicinally as a hemostatic

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