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Tannic

Tannic Meaning & Definition
Tannic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tannic?

[adj] derived from, or resembling, tan or tannin

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Tannic In Webster's Dictionary

\Tan"nic\, a. Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. {Tannic acid}. (Chem.) (a) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, {C14H10O9}, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also {tannin}, and {gallotannic acid}. (b) By extension, any one of a series of astringent substances resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc.

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