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Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric modification of ricinoleic acid obtained as a white crystalline solid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly, designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.

A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.

The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.

Ricinoleic.

or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.

ually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.