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[syn: black oak, yellow oak, quercitron, quercitron oak, Quercus velutina]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quercitron \Quer"cit*ron\, n. [F. quercitron, the name of the
name of tree; L. quercus an oak + citrus the citron tree.]
1. The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the
American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron
oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern
Texas.
[1913 Webster]
2. Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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 five-lobed leaves
are bristle-tipped [syn: black oak, yellow oak,
quercitron, quercitron oak, Quercus velutina]