sycocericadj.
/sɪkə(ʊ)ˈsɛrɪk//sɪkə(ʊ)ˈsɪərɪk/ Chemistry.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig, Ficus rubiginosa; as in sycoceric acid, a crystalline compound, C18H28O2; so sycoceric alcohol, sycoceric aldehyde.
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1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 641 Sycoceryl Alcohol..is produced by the action of alcoholic soda on sycoceryl acetate.
Derivatives
sycoˈceryl n. the hypothetical radical of the sycoceric compounds (also attributive).
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oenanthyl1852
sycoceryl1860
formyl1879
sulphine1880
1860 De la Rue & Müller in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 150 47 Acetate of Sycoceryl. We assign this name..to the crystallizable substance..obtained when the residue, left after the treatment of the original resin with cold alcohol, is dissolved in boiling alcohol, and the solution allowed to cool.
sycoceˈrylic adj. = sycoceric.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [adjective] > gum (resin) > specific
myrtine oila1382
galbanated1694
galbanean1697
sycocerylic1860
1860 De la Rue & Müller in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 150 50 The new alcohol which we propose to call Sycocerylic Alcohol.
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