tan´nin|like´

tan´nin|like´
tan|nin «TAN uhn», noun.
a vegetable acid, especially common tannin, the whitish tannic acid obtained from the bark or galls of oaks and from certain other plants. Tannis is used in tanning, dyeing, and making ink, and in medicine.
[< French tanin < tan (< Medieval Latin tannum; see etym. under tan)]
tan´nin|like´, adjective.

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