单词 | antholeucin |
释义 | † antholeucinn. Obsolete. rare. A substance isolated from flowers, thought to act as a white colouring agent. ΚΠ 1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 309 Antholeucin, the white colouring matter of flowers. 1886 S. H. Vines Lect. Physiol. Plants xii. 242 The dissolved colouring-matters are, in white flowers, antholeucin, in blue, anthocyanin. 1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons 92 There is such a thing as white flower-pigment (antholeucin), but in most cases the petals or sepals are white..because of innumerable gas-bubbles in the cells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1863 |
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