a. Chem. [f. L. laur-us LAUREL + -IC.] Lauric acid, a white crystalline compound (C12H24O2) obtained from the berries of Laurus nobilis. Hence in Lauric aldehyde, ether: names of compounds derived from this acid.
1873. Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 11), 639. Lauric acid is insoluble in water.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med. (ed. 6), 680. Besides which there are small quantities of lauric aldehyd C12H24O.
