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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an acid, a colorless compound, C30H58O6, contained, together with lithofellic acid, in oriental bezoars, the gall-stones of an antelope. It forms microscopic crystals, melts at 199° C., and gives an intense red-violet color with hydrochloric acid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.

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