lysergic acid

1. 1.

   a crystalline acid often used in medical research; obtained from ergotic alkaloids

   Broaderacid

Questions about lysergic acid

What does lysergic acid mean?

lysergic acid means "a crystalline acid often used in medical research; obtained from ergotic alkaloids".

Is lysergic acid a common word?

lysergic 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.