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quercetic

Variant of quercetin

noun

the yellow, crystalline dyestuff, CHO, extracted from the inner bark of the black oak and also produced synthetically

Origin: < L quercetum, oak forest < quercus, oak (< IE base *perkwus, oak > fir) + -in

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quercetic adjective

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