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单词 eugenin
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eugeninn.

Brit. /ˈjuːdʒᵻnɪn/, U.S. /ˈjudʒənən/
Forms: 1800s– eugenin, 1800s–1900s eugenine.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Eugenia n., -in suffix1.
Etymology: < Eugenia n. + -in suffix1. In sense 1 after French eugénine (J. F. Bonastre 1834, in Jrnl. de Pharmacie 20 566), German Eugenin (1835 in Annalen der Pharmacie 13 92, in a translation of the same article).With sense 2 compare German Eugenin (1948 in this sense). With the form eugenine compare -ine suffix5.
Chemistry.
1. A white solid substance obtained from an aqueous distillate of oil of cloves (probably a hydrate or other derivative of eugenol). Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1835 Amer Jrnl. Pharmacy 7 83 M. Bonastre has discovered a new crystalline substance in cloves, and which he calls Eugenine.
1837 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 11 338 Bonastre obtained from the distilled water of aromatic pink, a crystalline substance..; it has been named by him eugenin.
1838 Penny Cycl. X. 66/1 The taste of eugenin is but slight, and the smell much less strong than that of the clove.
1902 H. Kraemer Course Bot. & Pharmacognosy ii. 180 Cloves also contain..eugenin (isomeric with eugenol or eugenic acid) which resembles caryophyllin but becomes reddish with nitric acid.
2. A bitter-tasting chromone originally isolated from the buds of wild clove trees.Eugenin is 5-hydroxy-7-methoxy-2-methylchromone.
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1942 T. M. Meijer Eugenine & Eugenone (Lab. Chem. Res. Buitenzorg (Java), Communivation No. 100) 3 It seemed plausible to assign to this substance the structure such as is represented in formula I... The substance was called eugenine.
1980 T. J. Simpson in Biosynthesis (Royal Soc Chem.) 6 i. 14 Fungal infection..induces formation of the phytoalexins (stress compounds) 6-methoxymellein and eugenin in carrot roots.
1989 R. Ibrahim & D. Barron in J. B. Harborne Methods in Plant Biochem. I. iii. 78 Most simple substituted chromones, such as eugenin,..occur in rhizomes, heartwood and stem bark of several species.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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