Word Meanings - PHILLYGENIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.

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• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• PHILLYRIN
  A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• HOLOCRYSTALLINE
  Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
• CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE
  Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.
• SUBCRYSTALLINE
  Imperfectly crystallized.