Found 2 items, similar to quercitron.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quercitron
quercitron
n 1: a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree
2: medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United
States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and
yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad 5-lobed leaves
are bristle-tipped [syn:
black oak,
yellow oak,
quercitron oak
,
Quercus velutina]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: quercitron
Quercitrin
\Quer"cit*rin\, n. [Cf. F. quercitrin. See
Quercitron.] (Chem.)
A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (
Quercus) as
a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a
pigment and called
quercitron.
[1913 Webster]