Meaning of antholeucin | Babel Free

Definitions

A substance isolated from flowers and thought to act as a white pigment.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The dissolved colouring-matters are, in white flowers, antholeucin, in blue anthocyanin.”

“This in the case of yellow flowers is anthoxanthin; of white flowers, antholeucin; of blue flowers, anthocyanin, etc.”

“There is such a thing as white flower-pigment (antholeucin), but in most cases the petals or sepals are white, just as foam is white, because of innumerable gas-bubbles in the cells.”

CEFR level