Chem. [f. Gr. σῦκον fig + ῤητἱνη resin.] An amorphous white neutral substance obtained from the resin of an Australian species of fig (Ficus rubiginosa).
1860. W. De la Rue & H Müller, in Phil. Trans., CL. 44.
1877. Watts, Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 12), II. 504.
