aesculin

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A form of esculin — A coumarin glucoside which exists in horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), prickly box (Bursaria spinosa) and in daphnin (the dark green resin of Daphne mezereum).

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Meanings

nounaesculin (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of esculin.

    And I will think of my father, sun-baked, scruffy and far from home, stalking the wilds of Clapham Common, saved from a dinner of roasted aesculin by people who knew the importance of making someone feel at home.

    2025 December 24, Nell Frizzell, “When my father first came to the UK, people bonded and looked after him. Would that happen now?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2025

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

aesculin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aesculin

MLA

“aesculin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aesculin. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aesculin,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aesculin.

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