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ellagic acid

[uh-laj-ik]

noun

Pharmacology.
  1. a yellow crystalline substance, C 14 H 6 O 8 , isolated from oak galls and tannins and used as a hemostatic.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of ellagic acid1

1800–10; < French ellagique, equivalent to ellag- anagram of galle gall 3 + -ique -ic

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