释义 |
picrolichenic, a. Biochem.|pɪkrəʊˈlaɪkənɪk| [f. next + -ic.] picrolichenic acid: a very bitter, crystalline, polycyclic acid, C25H30O7, isolated from the lichen Pertusaria amara; = next.
1902Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LXXXII. i. 465 The name picrolichenic acid is suggested for picrolichenin. 1957Chem. & Industry 27 July 1042/2 Picrolichenic acid, a constituent of the common crustose lichen Pertusaria amara Ach{ddd} is responsible for the well known, very bitter, quinine-like taste of this lichen. 1959New Biol. XXIX. 86 Picrolichenic acid..is a previously undescribed type of lichen acid in which the ring structures in the molecule are joined by a direct carbon to carbon link rather than by an oxygen atom as is the case in depsidones. 1973S. Huneck in Ahmadjian & Hale Lichens xv. 511 The only hitherto known depsone from lichens is picrolichenic acid. |