pinic acid

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pinus (“pine”).

Noun

pinic acid (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) An acid which is the chief constituent of common resin.

Synonyms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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