Phlorone

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phlorone \Phlo"rone\, n. [Phlorol + quinone.] (Chem.)
     A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant
     odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood
     tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; --
     called also {xyloquinone}.
     [1913 Webster]