syringin

English

Etymology

From Syringa +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹɪndʒɪn/

Noun

syringin (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa), among other plants, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

Synonyms

• lilacin

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “syringin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)