erythric, a. Chem.
(ɛˈrɪθrɪk)
[f. Gr. ἐρυθρ-ός red + -ic.]
erythric acid: † a. (see quot. 1840); b. = erythrin.
| 1840 Henry Elem. Chem. II. 415 An acid has also been obtained by Brugnatelli, by acting on uric acid with nitric acid, which he has proposed to call erythric acid. 1861 Macmillan Footn. Page Nat. 117 Schunk..discovered [in rock-moss or cudbear] a colourless crystalline acid, called erythric acid. |