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Definition of Flavone
1. Noun. A colorless crystalline compound that is part of a number of white or yellow plant pigments.
Definition of Flavone
1. Noun. (chemistry) any of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) the parent compound of this class ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flavone
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Medical Definition of Flavone
1. 1. 2-Phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one; or 2-phenylchromone;a plant pigment that is the basis of the flavonoids. 2. One of a class of compounds based on flavone. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flavone
Literary usage of Flavone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"There are quite a considerable number of yellow substances occurring in plants
derived from flavone, but only a few representative ones will be mentioned ..."
2. Chemie der organischen Farbstoffe by Rudolf Nietzki (1906)
"Xanthone und flavone sind namentlich deshalb von Interesse, weil sich eine ganze
Anzahl von Farbstoffen, welche in der Natur vorkommen, ihnen anreihen ..."
3. The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides by Edward Frankland Armstrong (1919)
"No opinion is expressed by him as to the physiological function which flavone
exercises in the economy of the plant life, though the fact that it is ..."
4. The Natural Organic Colouring Matters by Arthur George Perkin, Arthur Ernest Everest (1918)
"and apigenin 1:3:4' trihydroxy flavone possess but feeble dyeing property,*
whereas luteolin i : 3 : 3' : 4' tetrahydroxy flavone is a strong colouring ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1899)
"Kostanecki in his extended work on the unsaturated ketones obtained flavone and
derivatives of flavone by the action of alcoholic potash on the ..."
6. Pigments of Flowering Plants by Nellie Antoinette Wakeman (1913)
"The flavone group constitutes the largest known group of plant coloring matters.
All of its members are di-, tri-, tetra-, pent-, ..."
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