Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fragrant crystalline compound, C9H6O2, present in tonka beans and produced synthetically for use as a fragrance. Coumarin has been banned as a food additive in the United States because it can be toxic in large amounts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vegetable proximate principle (C9H9O2) obtained from the Dipteryx (Coumarouna) odorata or Tonka bean, and also occurring in melilot and some other plants, to which it gives its characteristic odor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of
Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry the
bicyclic aromatic compound 1,2-benzopyrone or any of itsderivatives
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The aromatic compound in bison grass is called coumarin.
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Cassia has a chemical called coumarin which could be toxic.
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Professor Link isolated the hemorrhaging agent, an anticoagulant called coumarin, in spoiled sweet clover hay.
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Professor Link isolated the hemorrhaging agent, an anticoagulant called coumarin, in spoiled sweet clover hay.
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Dr. Hockman isolated a substance called coumarin from the leaves of gliricidia.
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A principle called coumarin exists abundantly in the flowers of the melilotus, and it possesses an odor which is attributed to the presence of benzoic acid.
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The agreeable odour of this sweet Woodruffe is due to a chemical principle named "coumarin," which powerfully affects the brain; and the plant further contains citric, malic, and rubichloric acids, together with some tannic acid.
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The flowers contain "coumarin," and their volatile pollen impregnates the atmosphere in early summer.
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Zu, produced in conjunction with Rémy Cointreau, is available without coumarin.
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slumry commented on the word coumarin
A fragrant crystalline substance derived from Galium odorata and other plants. Tonka bean is another source of the substance.
July 18, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word coumarin
"Meanwhile, Dr Schweitzer was reaching a conclusion, and briefly mentioned that Perkin was, predictably by this stage, very much responsible for the way women smelt, having once formed coumarin from coal-tar, which led to artificial musk, and then to the artificial production of the scents of violets, roses, jasmine and the 'smell of the year' — oil of wintergreen."
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March 28, 2012