phlorone Meaning, Definition & Usage

Phlo"rone noun
Etymology
Phlorol + quinone.
Definitions
  1. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

Webster 1913