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ch are at once derivatives of both phenol and some member of the fatty acid series; thus, salicylic acid is a phenol acid. -- Phenol alcohol (Chem.), any one of series of derivatives of phenol and carbinol which have the properties of both combined; thus, saligenin is a phenol alcohol. -- Phenol aldehyde (Chem.), any…

A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.

nks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic. -- n.

A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.

Salic. Shak. She fulmined out her scorn of laws salique. Tennyson.

A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate.

The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.

derived from, the meadowsweet (Spiræa); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal. [Obs.]

The European reed bunting, or black-headed bunting. See under Reed. (b) A sparrow (Passer salicicolus) native of Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe. -- Willow tea, the prepared leaves of a species of willow largely grown in the neighborhood of Shanghai, extensively used by the poorer classes of Chinese as a substitute…

to include other species of the same genus. Spiked willow-herb, a perennial herb (Lythrum Salicaria) with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers.

Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.