Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Phloroglucin

Phloroglucin , noun

[Phloretin + Greek glyky`s sweet.]

(Chemistry) A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]