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œnanthic, a. Chem.|iːˈnænθɪk|
[f. L. œnanthē, a. Gr. οἰνάνθη (f. οἴνη vine + ἄνθη blossom, bloom), a vine-shoot or bud, vine-blossom, vine. (Also a plant like the vine, applied by Pliny to an umbelliferous plant, and taken by Linnæus as the name of a genus of Umbelliferæ including the poisonous Water Dropwort.)]
Having the characteristic odour of wine. œnanthic acid, an acid (or mixture of acids), C14H26O2 + H2O, obtained from œnanthic ether, forming a colourless oil solidifying at 13° C. into a buttery mass. œnanthic ether, a mobile oily liquid, the source of the peculiar odour of wines, obtained by distillation of wine-lees.
1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 138 Of œnanthic acid. This acid was discovered by Liebig and Pelouze, constituting one of the component parts of œnanthic ether to which wines owe their peculiar smell. 1880Bloxam Chem. (ed. 4) 522 Caproic, œnanthic, and caprylic alcohols, are all liquid at the ordinary temperature. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 843 The bouquet and aroma [of wine] are due to the compound ethers, especially to œnanthic ether.
So œˈnanthol, œˈnanthyl, œˈnanthylene, œnanˈthylic a. Chem. (see quots.); œˈnanthylate, a salt of œnanthylic acid.
1857W. A. Miller Elem. Chem. III. 139 Œnanthylic Aldehyd; Œnanthol..is furnished by the destructive distillation of castor oil. Ibid. 397 Œnanthylate of potash. Ibid. 191 Heptylene or Œnanthylene. 1866–77Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 176 Œnanthyl, C7H13O, the hypothetical radicle of œnanthylic acid and its derivatives. The same name is sometimes, but inappropriately, given to heptyl, C7H15. Ibid. 177 Œnanthylic acid, C7H14O2..is a transparent colourless oil, having an unpleasant odour like that of cod-fish. |