taurylic acid

English

Etymology

From Latin taurus (“bull”) + English phenylic.

Noun

taurylic acid (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) An acid found in the urine of neat cattle, probably identical with cresol.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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