Chem. [f. next + -IN1.] A bitter crystalline substance obtained from the juice of dandelion-root. So Taraxacerin, resin of taraxacum.
1858. Hogg, Veg. Kingd., 462. A peculiar crystallizable principle was discovered in the juice by M. Polex, which he called taraxacin.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 671. The bitter substance of the root [of the dandelion], the so-called taraxacin, and the resin, have been examined by Polex (Arch. Pharm. xix. 50).
1890. Thorpe, Dict. Applied Chem., I. 646/1. From that part of the coagulum left undissolved by the water alcohol extracts taraxacerin C8H16O (Kromayer).
