Catechu - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: catechuCatechu
A dry brown astringent extract obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu and several other plants growing in India It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid and is used in medicine and in the arts It is also known by the names terra japonica cutch gambier etc...
Catechuic
Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives See catechin...
Catechin
One of the tannic acids C15H14O6 extracted from catechu as a white crystalline substance called also catechuic acid catechinic acid cyanidol and catechuin It is a flavonoid found generally in higher woody plants and is used in dyeing and tanning...
Cashoo
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Cutch
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Phloroglucin
A sweet white crystalline substance metameric with pyrogallol and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin and from certain gums as catechu kino etc It belongs to the class of phenols Called also phloroglucinol...
Pyrocatechin
A white crystalline substance C6H4OH2 of the phenol series found in various plants so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu Called also catechol oxyphenol etc...
Forest-produce
Forest-produce, means:(a) the following whether found in, or brought from, a forest or not, that is to say--timber charcoal, caoutchouc, catechu, wood-oil, resin, natural varnish, bark, lac, mahuaflowers, mahua seeds, kuth and myrabolams, and(b) the following when found in, or brought from a forest, that is to say--(i) trees and leaves, flowers and fruits, and all other parts or produce not hereinbefore mentioned, of trees,(ii) plants not being trees (including grass, creepers, reeds and moss), and all parts or produce of such plants,(iii) wild animals and skins, tusks, horns, bones, silk, cocoons, honey and wax, and all other parts or produce of animals, and(iv) peat, surface soil, rock and mineral (including lime-stone, laterite, mineral oils, and all products of mines or quarries). [Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927), s. 2 (4)]...
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