My`co*mel"ic (?), a. [Gr. (spirious) mucus (L. mucus) + honey.] Chem.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid of the alloxan group, obtained as a honey-yellow powder. Its solutions have a gelatinous consistency.

 

© Webster 1913.

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