Meconic

[mi'kɔnik]

Definition

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

Checker: Walter

Definition

adj. denoting an acid obtained from poppies.—ns. Mec′onate a salt of meconic acid; Mec′onine a white fusible neutral substance existing in opium; Mecō′nium the first f鎐es of a new-born child: opium.

Typed by Evangeline