ELLAGIC ACID


Meaning of ELLAGIC ACID in English

/euh laj"ik/ , Pharm.

a yellow crystalline substance, C 14 H 6 O 8 , isolated from oak galls and tannins and used as a hemostatic.

[ 1800-10; ellagique, equiv. to ellag- anagram of galle GALL 3 + -ique -IC ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .