A crystalline heterocyclic carbohydrate, C₁₇H₁₄O₆, produced by the pea plant as a fungitoxic phytoalexin.
Origin
1960s. From pis- (in scientific Latin pisum) + sat- (in scientific Latin sativum) + -in, after scientific Latin Pisum sativum, taxonomic name of the pea plant.
Definition of pisatin in US English:
pisatin
noun
Biochemistry
A crystalline heterocyclic carbohydrate, C₁₇H₁₄O₆, produced by the pea plant as a fungitoxic phytoalexin.
Origin
1960s. From pis- (in scientific Latin pisum) + sat- (in scientific Latin sativum) + -in, after scientific Latin Pisum sativum, taxonomic name of the pea plant.