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CIDE DICTIONARY

quercitrin, n. [Cf. F. quercitrin. See Quercitron.].

A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron. [1913 Webster]

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