gallic acid

1. 1.

   a colorless crystalline acid obtained from tannin

   Broaderacid

Questions about gallic acid

What does gallic acid mean?

gallic acid means "a colorless crystalline acid obtained from tannin".

Is gallic acid a common word?

gallic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.