Chem. Also -ine. [f. L. viola VIOLA1 + (ALLOX)ANTIN.] ‘A compound containing the elements of violuric and dilituric acids’ (Watts).
1866. W. Odling, Anim. Chem., 128. Baeyer has increased the list of compounds by his discovery of pseudo-uric acid, hydantoine, violantine [etc.].
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 11), 939. Hydurilic acid … with nitric acid of ordinary strength … yields alloxan, together with violuric acid, violantin, and dilituric acid.
