Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline bitter principle, difficultly soluble in water and alcohol, which is found in the bark of the horse-chestnut tree, Æsculus Hippocastanum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A glucoside obtained from the
Æsculus hippocastanum , or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions.
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- noun organic chemistry
Coumarin glucoside which exists inhorse-chestnuts , dapnin, and California Buckeye.
Etymologies
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Related to Latin aesculus.
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Examples
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The species Aesculus hippocastanum has been studied and has been found to contain saponin, tannin, and the glycoside, esculin.
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In 1870, according to Dymock, Broughton analyzed the fresh bark and reported that the bitter taste was due to _esculin_, which after drying and coming in contact with decomposing organic matter is transformed into the almost tasteless _esculetin_.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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