theobromic acid

English

Etymology

Theobroma +‎ -ic + acid

Noun

theobromic acid (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) An acid extracted from cocoa butter, peanut oil, etc. as a white waxy crystalline substance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “theobromic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)