ligustrin

[Eng., ., ligustr ( um ); -in.] Chem.: A yellow, bitter extract obtained from strap, a band.] [LIGULA.] *1. Ord . Lang .: Like a strap or band. 2. Bot .: Strap-shaped; narrow, moderately long, with the two opposite margins parallel. Often used of the flowers of the ray in a compound plant; or of flowers having a monopetalous corolla slit on one side and opened flat, as the Dandelion Lilac. "One of the ligulate flowers or florets of Cichorium intybus."- Balfour: Botany, § 911. lig-ule, lig-u-la ( pl . lig-ules, lig'-u-læ), s . [Fr., from Lat. ligula a strap, a band.] 1. Angt .: A thin lamina occupying the angle be. tween the cerebellum and the recti form body of the medulla oblong at a in the brain. 2. Botany : (1) A peculiar membranous proce at the top of the sheath beneath the blade of a gra . "Ending in a nembranous proce or ligule . "- Balfour : Botany , § 161. (2) One of the rays of a composite plant. (3) ( Pl . , chiefly of the form ligule): Horns additional to others in the corona of some plants. 3. Entom .: The upper flexible portion of the labrum in the mouth of the mandibulate orders of insects.