Definition of quercitrons Quercitrons

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What does quercitrons mean?

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Noun Plural: quercitrons
quercitron - a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree
quercitron - medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped
		black oak, yellow oak, quercitron oak, Quercus velutina

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quercitron (Noun)
A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak .
quercitron (Noun)
The black oak tree, Quercus velutina , indigenous to North America .

quercitron (n.)
The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.
quercitron (n.)
Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.

quercitron
kwer′si-tron, n. the name both of a dye-stuff and of the species of oak of which it is the bark—the Quercus coccinea of North America, also called Dyer's oak and Yellow-barked oak.—ns. Quer′cite, a sweet crystalline compound found in acorns; Quer′citin, a yellow crystalline compound derived from quercitrin by the action of mineral acids; Quer′citrin, a glucoside, the colouring-matter of quercitron-bark. [L. quercus, oak, citrus, a tree of the lemon kind.]