Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compound, formed by heating coumarilic acid with lime or coumarin dibromide with alcoholic potash. It is an oil which boils at 172° C.

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  • noun organic chemistry The bicyclic heterocycle benzofuran.

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  • noun a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[coumar(in) + –one.]

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