Word Meanings - TANNIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid. An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound,

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Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid. An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid. By extension, any one of a series of astringent substances resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc.

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