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helicin Chem.|ˈhɛlɪsɪn| [mod. f. L. helix spiral, also a kind of willow + -in.] 1. The glycoside of salicylic acid.
1859Fownes Man. Chem. 444. 1865 Watts Dict. Chem. III. 139. 1873 Fownes' Chem. (ed. 11) 642 Helicin, C13H16O7, is a white, crystalline, slightly bitter substance, produced by the action of very dilute nitric acid upon salicin. 2. An oily substance extracted from snails.
1854Mayne Expos. Lex., Helicin, name given by Oscar Figuier for a peculiar substance which he discovered in the garden snail. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. ii. 85 An oil with a sulphurous odour..to which he has given the name of Helicine. |