tartrate definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a salt or ester of tartaric acid

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from French tartre tartar, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin tartarum Date: 1794 a salt or ester of tartaric acid

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Chem. any salt or ester of tartaric acid. Etymology: F (as TARTAR, -ATE(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tartrate Tar"trate, n. [Cf. F. tartrate.] (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid.