Erucic

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or derived from plants of the genus Eruca
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica)
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Noting an acid, a colorless compound, C22H42O2, contained, in combination with glycerol, in white and black mustard-seed oil. It crystallizes in long slender needles, melts at 33–34° C., and is readily converted into the isomeric brassidic acid.
  • Word Usage
    "In much of the West, the sale of mustard oil for food use is illegal, for two reasons: it contains large quantities of an unusual fatty acid, erucic acid; and it contains irritating isothiocyanates."
    Form
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts