Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
emodin


emodin


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Emodin  \Em"o*din\,  n.  (Chem.) 
  An  orange-red  crystalline  substance,  {C15H10O5},  obtained 
  from  the  buckthorn,  rhubarb,  etc.,  and  regarded  as  a 
  derivative  of  anthraquinone;  --  so  called  from  a  species  of 
  rhubarb  ({Rheum  emodei}).