Definition of Cinnamic

1. a. Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.

Definition of Cinnamic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to cinnamon ¹

2. Adjective. (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to cinnamic acid or its derivatives ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cinnamic

1. cinnamon [adj] - See also: cinnamon

Medical Definition of Cinnamic

1. Relating to cinnamon. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinnamic

cingulum of tooth
cingulum rest
cinnabar
cinnabar chanterelle
cinnabar moth
cinnabarinate synthase
cinnabarine
cinnabars
cinnamaldehyde
cinnamate
cinnamates
cinnamein
cinnamene
cinnamenes
cinnamic (current term)
cinnamic acid
cinnamic alcohol
cinnamic aldehyde
cinnamomic
cinnamon
cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner
cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaners
cinnamon bark
cinnamon bear
cinnamon bread
cinnamon bun
cinnamon fern
cinnamon oil
cinnamon roll

Literary usage of Cinnamic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"Not much is known about the pharmacologie actions of cinnamic acid. ... cinnamic acid has been proposed as a food preservative; but the German commission ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"When cinnamic acid is distilled with perchloride of phosphorus it yields a compound corresponding to chloride of benzoyl. It may be termed chloride of ..."

3. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1869)
"The crystals of cinnamic acid are smaller and less distinct than those of benzoic acid, ... cinnamic acid is much less soluble, both in hot and cold water, ..."

4. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1922)
"CH=CH2 + CO2, cinnamic acid Styrène and by the polymerization of acetylene ... CH2OH, occurs in the form of the ethereal salt of cinnamic acid in liquid ..."

5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1889)
"It crystallizes from alcohol in long, fine needles, melting at 90°, and its hydrazone forms golden-yellow plates, which melt at 120° (Kinkelin). cinnamic ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"subsequently extracting with alkali and precipitating the cinnamic acid with hydrochloric acid, the cinnamic acid is obtained in quantitative yield. ..."

7. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"cinnamic acid is also known 9& ... Oxidizing agents convert cinnamic acid into benzoic aldehyde (bitter-almond oil) ..."

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