Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun barbituric_acid

1 sense of barbituric acid

Sense 1
barbituric acid, malonylurea -- (a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs)
       => acid -- (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)