aricine

English

Etymology

From (province in Chile) Arica +‎ -ine.

Noun

aricine (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in white cinchona bark.

Translations

an alkaloid found in white cinchona bark

Portuguese: aricina f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “aricine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Cairnie