Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tricarballylic

Tricarballylic , adjective

[Prefix tri- + carboxyl + allyl + -ic.]

(Chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.