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phlorone, n. [Phlorol + quinone.].

A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone. [1913 Webster]

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