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- Japanese · borrowed from海人草
- English todaykainic acid
Borrowed from Japanese 海人草 (kainin-sou).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
kainic acid
Today it means: A heterocyclic dicarboxylic acid isolated from certain red algae; used as an anthelmintic in Japan. Full definition →
Japanese 海人草