pisatin

English

Etymology

Short for Pisum sativum +‎ -in.

Noun

pisatin (uncountable)

  1. A pterocarpan found in the pea plant Pisum sativum.
    • 2008 April 1, Henry Fountain, “The Little Tingle Tells You It’s Working”, in New York Times‎:
      Hans VanEtten and Evans Kaimoyo of the University of Arizona and colleagues applied a low-level direct current (30 to 100 milliamperes at 8 to 24 volts) to pea plant roots and found that the plants produced levels of pisatin, an antifungal compound, 13 times as high as those of untreated plants.

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