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evernic

evernic adjective: of or pertaining to the lichen genus Evernia, the oakmoss lichens or ring lichens.

Adjective

evernic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the lichen genus Evernia, the oakmoss lichens or ring lichens.
    • The silver-salt, AgO, C₁₈H₉O₇, is obtained as a white precipitate, on addition of nitrate of protoxide of silver to everninate of ammonia. If evernic acid be boiled with strong alcohol, containng a few pieces of caustic potassa, until the whole is perfectly dissolved, and carbonic acid be passed...1850, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Annual Report of the Progress of Chemistry, page 71

Origin of evernic

From Evernia + -ic.

Words formed from evernic

Questions about evernic

What does evernic mean?
Evernic means of or pertaining to the lichen genus Evernia, the oakmoss lichens or ring lichens.
What part of speech is evernic?
Evernic is an adjective.

Words near evernic in the dictionary

  1. Evermans
  2. evermore
  3. evermoving
  4. everness
  5. Evernet
  6. evernic
  7. evernic acid
  8. evernimicin
  9. everninate
  10. evernine
  11. everninomicin

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