See Also: gibberellic(dictionary)
gibberellic acid(medicine)

gibberellic (iou)



gibberellic adjective. M20.
[from mod. Latin Gibberella (see below), dim. of Gibbera genus name, from Latin gibber hump: see -IC.]
gibberellic acid, one of the gibberellins, a tetracyclic lactonic acid first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, a parasite of cereals.