a. Chem. [f. Gr. σῦκον fig + κηρός wax + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or derived from the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig, Ficus rubiginosa; as in sycoceric acid, a crystalline compound, C18H28O2; so sycoceric alcohol, aldehyde. So Sycoceryl, the hypothetical radical of the sycoceric compounds (also attrib.); hence Sycocerylic a. = sycoceric.
1860. De la Rue & Müller, in Phil. Trans., CL. 47. Acetate of Sycoceryl. We assign this name … to the crystallizable substance … obtained when the residue, left after the treatment of the original resin with cold alcohol, is dissolved in boiling alcohol, and the solution allowed to cool. Ibid., 50. The new alcohol which we propose to call Sycocerylic Alcohol.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 11), 791. Sycoceryl Alcohol is produced by the action of alcoholic soda on sycoceryl acetate.
