citric (sitrik)

[= F. citrique = Sp. cítrico = Pg. It. citrico, 2. Pertaining to the genus Citrus; having the characters of or resembling the citron, lemon, lime, or orange. - Citrine lake. Same as brown pink (which see, under brown ). - Citrine ointment, the common name of an ointment made of nitrate of mercury. It consists of 3 parts of mercury, 7 of nitric acid, and 33 of lard. U. S. Pharmacopeia. II. n. 1. Citron-color. See extract. Citrine , or the colour of the citron, is the first of the tertiary cla of colours, or ultimate compounds of the primary triad, yellow, red, and blue; in which yellow is the archeus or predominating colour, and blue the extreme subordinate. Field, Chromatography, p. 310. 2. A yellow pellucid variety of quartz. rtz. Dana. Citrin ell a (sit-ri-nel'ä), n. [NL. (Kaup, 1829), dim. of ML. citrin us, citrine, yellow: see citrine, and cf. citril.] 1. A genus of old-world ember i zine birds, of the family Fringillid a, containing the yellowhammer, the cirl-bunting, the ortolan, etc.-2. A name given by Bonaparte (1838) to a genus of birds of which the citril is the type. See citril.