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Acorn sugar

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quer⋅ci⋅tol

[kwur-si-tawl, -tol]
–noun Chemistry.
a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C6H1 2O5, obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
Also called acorn sugar.


Origin:
1880–85; quercet(in) + -ol 1
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