lantanuric acid

English

Etymology

Formed by transposition of the letters of allantoin and -uric.

Noun

lantanuric acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by decomposition of allantoin.

Synonyms

• allanturic acid

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lantanuric acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)