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  • English Word Oxalic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family.
  • English Word Oxaline Definition See Glyoxaline.
  • English Word Oxalis Definition A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.
  • English Word Oxalite Definition A yellow mineral consisting of oxalate of iron.
  • English Word Oxaluramide Definition Same as Oxalan.
  • English Word Oxalurate Definition A salt of oxaluric acid.
  • English Word Oxaluric Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.
  • English Word Oxalyl Definition A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.
  • English Word Oxalyl Definition An old name for carbonyl.
  • English Word Oxalyl Definition An old name for carboxyl.
  • English Word Oxamate Definition A salt of oxamic acid.
  • English Word Oxamethane Definition Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.
  • English Word Oxamethylane Definition Methyl oxamate, obtained as a pearly white crystalline substance.
  • English Word Oxamic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia.
  • English Word Oxamide Definition A white crystalline neutral substance (C2O2(NH2)2) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.
  • English Word Oxamidine Definition One of a series of bases containing the amido and the isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.
  • English Word Oxanilate Definition A salt of oxanilic acid.
  • English Word Oxanilic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline; -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.
  • English Word Oxanilide Definition a white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; -- called also diphenyl oxamide.
  • English Word Oxanillamide Definition A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.
  • English Word Oxbane Definition A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.
  • English Word Oxbird Definition The dunlin.
  • English Word Oxbird Definition The sanderling.
  • English Word Oxbird Definition An African weaver bird (Textor alector).
  • English Word Oxbiter Definition The cow blackbird.
  • English Word Oxbow Definition A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.
  • English Word Oxen Definition of Ox
  • English Word Oxeye Definition The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.
  • English Word Oxeye Definition The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).
  • English Word Oxeye Definition A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.