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Webster 1913 Edition


Esculin

Es-cu′lin

,
Noun.
[See
Esculic
.]
(Chem.)
A glucoside obtained from the
Æsculus hippocastanum
, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions.
[Written also
æsculin
.]

Definition 2024


esculin

esculin

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esculin (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A coumarin glucoside which exists in horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), prickly box (Bursaria spinosa) and in daphnin (the dark green resin of Daphne mezereum).

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