Antholeucin
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Antholeucin is a noun meaning (botany, obsolete) A substance isolated from flowers and thought to act as a white pigment.
Meaning
(botany, obsolete) A substance isolated from flowers and thought to act as a white pigment.
Example Sentences
The dissolved colouring-matters are, in white flowers, antholeucin, in blue anthocyanin.
This in the case of yellow flowers is anthoxanthin; of white flowers, antholeucin; of blue flowers, anthocyanin, etc.
There is such a thing as white flower-pigment (antholeucin), but in most cases the petals or sepals are white, just as foam is white, because of innumerable gas-bubbles in the cells.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include leucophyll, anthranol, leucodelphinidin, leucopelargonidin, anthoxanthin, anthochlor.
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