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myricin

myricin


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Myricin  \Myr"i*cin\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  myricine.  Prob.  so  called  from  a 
  fancied  resemblance  to  the  wax  of  the  bayberry  (Myrica).] 
  (Chem.) 
  A  silky,  crystalline,  waxy  substance,  forming  the  less 
  soluble  part  of  beeswax,  and  regarded  as  a  palmitate  of  a 
  higher  alcohol  of  the  paraffin  series;  --  called  also 
  {myricyl  alcohol}.