Results for glucoside

Definitions of glucoside:

One of a large group of substances, derived from animal or vegetable products, possessing the common property of yielding glucose and other products when they are boiled with dilute acids, or are acted on by certain ferments.

Usage examples for glucoside:

• Contains the glucoside digitalin and other active principles. "Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology", W. G. Aitchison Robertson

• Alcohol dissolves the active principle, perhaps a glucoside the study of which the author has not completed. "The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines", T. H. Pardo de Tavera

• It contains a chemical glucoside Menyanthin," which consists of glucose and a volatile product, " Menyanthol." "Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure", William Thomas Fernie

• Heckel and Schlagdenhauffen have confirmed the febrifuge virtues of the seeds and are uncertain as to the active principle since they found no glucoside or alkaloid in their analysis. "The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines", T. H. Pardo de Tavera