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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TARTAR'IC
T`ARTARIN, n. [from tartar.] Fixed vegetable alkali or potash.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: relating to or derived from or resembling tartar; "tartaric acid"

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. Chem. of or produced from tartar. Phrases and idioms: tartaric acid a natural carboxylic acid found esp. in unripe grapes, used in baking powders and as a food additive. Etymology: F tartarique f. med.L tartarum: see TARTAR

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tartarian Tar*ta"ri*an, Tartaric Tar*tar"ic, a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. Tartarian lamb (Bot.), Scythian lamb. See Barometz.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tartaric Tar*tar"ic, a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar. Tartaric acid. (a) An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having a strong pure acid taste. It is used in medicine, in dyeing, calico printing, photography, etc., and also as a substitute for lemon juice. Called also dextro-tartaric acid. (b) By extension, any one of the series of isomeric acids (racemic acid, levotartaric acid, inactive tartaric acid) of which tartaric acid proper is the type.