pinitol

[pahy-ni-tawl, -tol, pin-i-]

noun Chemistry.

a white, crystalline, inositol derivative, C7H14O6, obtained from the resin of the sugar pine.

Origin of pinitol

obsolete pinite pinitol (< French; see pine¹, -ite¹) + -ol¹

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