guaiacinn.
/ˈɡwʌɪəsɪn/ Chemistry.
A non-nitrogenous vegetable principle discovered in the wood and bark of the Guaiacum officinale, having a sharp acrid taste. An earlier word guaiacine occurs in Timme's Quersitanus i. xiii. k j b (1605), where ‘salt of guaiacine’ renders the Latin sal guaiacinus (apparently = guaiacum n. 2).
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1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 137 All the Guaiacums..contain a particular matter often designated as resin..but which is now considered a distinct substance, called Guaiacine.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 423 Landerer asserts that he has found in it a peculiar crystallizable substance which he calls guaiacin.
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