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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
QUERCITIN
QUERCITIN
Quer
"
ci
*
tin,
n. (
Chem.
)
Defn: A
yellow
crystalline
substance,
occurring
quite
widely
distributed
in
the
vegetable
kingdom,
as
is
apple-tree
bark,
horse-
chestnut
leaves,
etc.
,
but
originally
obtained
by
the
decomposition
of
quercitrin.
Called
also
meletin.
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