itaconic acid | (n) a crystalline carboxylic acid; occurs in some fermentations of sugars |
taconic mountains | (n) a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont |
Glutaconic | a. [ Glutaric + aconitic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Itaconic | a. [ From aconitic, by transposition of the letters. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, |
itaconic acid | n. (Chem.) The unsaturated dicarboxylic acid |
Taconic | a. (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the |