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emodin
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emodin, n.
An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5 , obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei ). [1913 Webster]
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