ulmin

English

Alternative forms

• ulmine

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ulmus (“elm”), +‎ -in: compare French ulmine.

Noun

ulmin (countable and uncountable, plural ulmins)

1. (organic chemistry) A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation.

See also

• humin

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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