† metameconaten.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French métaméconate.
Etymology: < French métaméconate (A. G. Vallet 1834, in Jrnl. de pharm. 21 24) < méta meta- prefix + méconate meconate n.
Chemistry.
Obsolete.
1836 W. T. Brande (ed. 4) 1022 The neutral metameconates of ammonia and potassa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019).