Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Myricin"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Myricin \Myr"i*cin\, n. [Cf. F. myricine. Prob. so called from a
fancied resemblance to the wax of the bayberry (Myrica).]
(Chem.)
A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less
soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a
higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also
{myricyl alcohol}.
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