a. Chem. [f. L. cīmic-em bug + -IC.] Cimicic Acid: a yellow crystallizable acid, of rancid odor, obtained from the liquid secreted by a bug, Rhaphigaster punctipennis. Its salts are Cimicates; and its radical Cimicyl.
1863–72. Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 964. Cimicic acid, C15 H28 O2, an acid, belonging to the oleic series … treated with pentachloride of phosphorus … yields chloride of cimicyl, C15 H27 O . Cl…. The cimicates of the earth-metals and heavy metals are nearly or quite insoluble in water and alcohol.
