plural of dehydrin

(countable or uncountable) A protein found in leaves extracted for use as a food for humans.

(organic chemistry) Any of several methyl derivatives of umbelliferone, but especially 4-methylumbelliferone that is used as the drug hymecromone.

Maize or corn that is a hybrid where one parent species is flint and the other has a soft outer hull. / Clay that is hard rather than plastic but that lacks the conchoidal fracture pattern of flint.