Chem. [f. L. coccum berry + trivial name of Daphne Gnidium, a species of Mezereon, named from Gnidus or Cnidus, an ancient town of Caria.] In C. acid, an acid, crystallizing in quadrangular colorless prisms, obtained from the seeds of Daphne Gnidium.
1863–72. in Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 1060.
