Word.ws English Dictionary

esculic acid

esculic acid noun: an acid obtained from the horse chestnut.

Noun

esculic acid (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) An acid obtained from the horse chestnut

Origin of esculic acid

Latin aesculus, generic name of the horse-chestnut, from Latin aesculus a kind of oak.

Questions about esculic acid

What does esculic acid mean?
Esculic acid means an acid obtained from the horse chestnut.
What part of speech is esculic acid?
Esculic acid is a noun.

Words near esculic acid in the dictionary

  1. esculentins
  2. esculentoside
  3. esculentosides
  4. esculents
  5. esculetin
  6. esculic acid
  7. esculin
  8. esculinase
  9. esculinases
  10. Escurial
  11. escutcheon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: esculic acid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “esculic acid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/esculic_acid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.