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Definition of Flavonol
1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any of several flavonoids that have a ''3-hydroxyflavone'' backbone ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flavonol
1. a derivative of flavone [n -S]
Medical Definition of Flavonol
1. 1. Reduced flavone. 2. Flavone hydroxylated at position 3; a member of a class of vascular pigments. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flavonol
Literary usage of Flavonol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural Organic Colouring Matters by Arthur George Perkin, Arthur Ernest Everest (1918)
"flavonol. XCO/C.OH IT is usual to subdivide the great family of yellow colours
derived from flavone into two classes, flavone and flavonol, and the latter ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"There are many facts to suggest a close relationship between the yellow pigments
of plants of the favone or flavonol type and the anthocyanins. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"P. flavonol. It is usual to subdivide the great family of yellow-colouring matters
derived from flavone into two classes, flavone and flavonol, ..."
4. Tissue Culture: Plants : A Bibliography, January 1991-April 1993. by Henry Gilbert (1994)
"Contents of the flavonol glycosides in callus tissue were higher than those of
mother plants, but the composition of each flavonol glycoside mixture in the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"It would seem that these pigments are formed in Nature from flavonol derivatives
first produced in the plants. Direct chemical evidence of this has been ..."
6. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1913)
"... or tetrahydroxy-flavonol O /\/ \ OH HO c \/\ OH CO COH •flavonol is the hydroxyl
derivative of flavone; the relationship between the two substances is ..."
7. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"Flavone and xanthone are phenyl derivatives of benzo-y- pyrone. The yellow pigments
are hydroxy derivatives of:— CO flavonol Xanthone. or hydroxyflavone. ..."
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