cryptidine

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós) + -idine.

Noun

cryptidine (countable and uncountable, plural cryptidines)

1. (organic chemistry) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C₁₁H₁₁N.
2. (organic chemistry) Any of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cryptidine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)