phloroglucin Meaning, Definition & Usage

Phlor`o*glu"cin noun
Etymology
Phloretin + Gr. sweet.
Definitions
  1. (Chem.) A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]

Webster 1913