n :  a yellow crystalline flavonol glycoside C₂₇H₃₀O₁₆ that occurs in various plants (as rue, tobacco, and buckwheat), that yields quercetin and rutinose on hydrolysis, and that is used chiefly for strengthening capillary blood vessels (as in cases of hypertension and radiation injury) .
 
 
 
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