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Definition: Tannic Acid |
Tannic AcidNoun1. Any of various complex phenolic substances of plant origin; used in tanning and in medicine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | A tannin occurring especially in extracts from gall and yielding gallic acid on hydrolysis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | Obtained by extraction with ether or alcohol from the raw vegetable materials or from the extracts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Tannic AcidSynonym: tannin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tannic Acid |
| English words defined with "tannic acid": Catechin ♦ Mimotannic, Morintannic ♦ Quercitannic ♦ tan, Tannate. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Add sulphur and tannic acid. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tannic acid | 52 |
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| Language | Translations for "tannic acid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | garvesyre (tannin), gallusgarvesyre (gallotannin), gallotannin (gallotannin). (various references) | |
Dutch | tanninezuur (gallotannin), looizuur (gallotannin, tannin), galnoot looizuur (gallotannin). (various references) | |
Finnish | gallushappo (gallotannin). (various references) | |
French | gallotannin, gallo-tanin, acide tannique. (various references) | |
German | Gerbsaeure, Gallussäure (gallotannin). (various references) | |
Greek | γαλλοδεψικόν οξύ ή ταννίνη (gallotannin), ταννικό οξύ, δεψικό οξύ. (various references) | |
Italian | tannino di galla (gallotannin), gallo-tannini (gallotannin), acido tannico, acidi tannici (gallotannin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annictay aciday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galhotanino (gallotannin), galho tanino (gallotannin), ácido tânico. (various references) | |
Russian | дубильная кислота. (various references) | |
Spanish | galo-tanino (gallotannin), gallotanino (gallotannin), ácido tánico (gallotannin). (various references) | |
Swedish | garvsyra (gallotannin, tannin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Tannic Acid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tanic acid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-i-n-n-t" | |
-2 letters: actinian, indicant. | |
-3 letters: accidia, actinia, actinic, antacid, cantina, indican. | |
-4 letters: acidic, acinic, cancan, cantic, cicada, incant, indict, niacin, tannic. | |
-5 letters: acini, actin, antic, cacti, canid, canna, dicta, ictic, naiad, nicad, nitid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-i-n-n-t" | |
+3 letters: antidesiccant. | |
+4 letters: antidesiccants, contraindicate. | |
+5 letters: contraindicated, contraindicates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6E 6E 69 63 41 63 69 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01100011 00100000 01000001 01100011 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a n n i c   A c i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006E 006E 0069 0063 0041 0063 0069 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546780807569235697570 |
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