Chem. [f. EUCALY-PTUS + -(I)N.] ‘A saccharine substance, produced in the fermentation of melitose (the sugar of the eucalyptus), under the influence of yeast’ (Watts, Dict. Chem.).
1864. H. Spencer, Biol., I. 11. Starch, sugar, eucalyn, sorbin [etc.], are polymeric.
1878. Kingzett, Anim. Chem., 404.
