Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Uvitic

Uvitic , adjective

[From Latin uva a grape. So called because it may be produced indirectly from tartaric acid, which is found in the grape.]

(Chemistry) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH3C6H3(CO2H)2, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial oxidation of mesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.