a. Chem. Obs. Also virgineic. [f. VIRGIN-IAN a.1 + -IC.] Virginic acid, an acid obtained from the fat-oil of Virginian snake-root.
1837. R. D. Thomson, in Brit. Ann., 350. Virginic acid.… Quevenne considers the whole of the oil to constitute the acid to which he has applied a name from Virginia, from whence the plant was originally sent by Dr. Tennant … in 1738.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 1002.
