ornithuric acid
Biochemistry
noun
A colourless crystalline acid isolated from the excreta of birds whose food contained benzoic acid; 1,4-dibenzoylornithine, C19H20N2O4.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Harper's Magazine.
- pitch-farthing
- pitch fiber
- pitch fibre
- pitch fir
- pitchfork
- pitch-hole
- pitchi
- pitch in
- pitchiness
- pitching axis
- pitching hole
- pitching moment
- pitching mound
- pitching pence
- pitching piece
- pitching stone
- pitching temperature
- pitching yeast
- pitch inspection
- pitch into
- pitch invasion
- pitch kettle
- pitch-kettled
- pitch knot
- pitch length