Grossulin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A vegetable jelly, now known as pectin, found in tamarind, currant, gooseberry, and other fruits. historical, obsolete, uncountable

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bassorinpectin

Etymology

From Grossularia (“subgenus of Ribes including gooseberries”) + -in, coined by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste-Gaston Guibourt, who thought it formed by fermentation of currant juice.

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