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lignin Chem.|ˈlɪgnɪn| Also -ine. [f. L. lign-um wood + -in1.] An organic substance, forming the essential part of woody fibre.
1822J. Imison Sci. & Art II. 131 When a piece of wood has been boiled in water and in alkohol..what remains insoluble is the woody fibre, or lignin. 1859Fownes' Chem. 360 Pure lignin is tasteless, insoluble in water and alcohol, and absolutely innutritious. 1894D. H. Scott Struct. Bot. i. Flowering Pl. 56 The woody character of the cell-walls of the xylem is due to the presence of a substance called lignine. b. Comb.: lignin-dynamite (see quot.).
1883Fortn. Rev. May 645 ‘Lignin-dynamite’, as the wood sawdust saturated with nitro-glycerine..is called. |