noun.
A glucoside, C36H38O20. which forms yellow crystalline needles or tablets. It is the coloring principle of quercitron-bark. Also called quercitrone.
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noun.
A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.
noun.
A glycoside formed from the flavonoidquercetin and the deoxysugarrhamnose, a constituent of quercitrondye.
Word Usage
"Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 70 pp. HAL.ETT, F.P. and PARKS, L.M. (1951a) A note on the isolation of quercitrin from Euphorbia pilulifera, L. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, (Scientific edition), 40, 56 - 57."