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meconic

meconic


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Meconic  \Me*con"ic\,  a.  [Gr.  ?  belonging  to  the  poppy,  fr  ?  the 
  poppy:  cf  F.  m['e]conique.] 
  Pertaining  to  or  obtained  from  the  poppy  or  opium;  specif. 
  (Chem.),  designating  an  acid  related  to  aconitic  acid,  found 
  in  opium  and  extracted  as  a  white  crystalline  substance.