scoparin
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]scoparin (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A yellow flavonoid gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius).
- 1895, Henry Martyn Bracken, Outlines of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, page 255:
- Scoparin […] is used — chiefly as a constituent of scoparius — for its diuretic action in certain forms of dropsy.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “scoparin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)