hordeic acid

English

Etymology

From Latin hordeum (“barley”).

Noun

hordeic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) An acid derived from barley (Hordeum spp.), identical or isomeric with lauric acid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hordeic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)