furocoumarin
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Noun
[edit]furocoumarin (plural furocoumarins)
- (organic chemistry) Any organic compound composed of a coumarin fused to a furan, but especially any derivative of the psoralen skeleton or its angular isomer angelicin
![Structures of angelicin, xanthotoxin, bergapten and nodekenetin](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Psoralen_derivatives.png/650px-Psoralen_derivatives.png)