myricin (English, noun)
expansion: myricin (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 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; myricyl alcohol.
tags: archaic
uncountable
Forms: