ALKALOID
\ˈalkɐlˌɔ͡ɪd], \ˈalkɐlˌɔɪd], \ˈa_l_k_ɐ_l_ˌɔɪ_d]\
Definitions of ALKALOID
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.
By Oddity Software
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An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.
By Noah Webster.
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A basic substance found in the leaves, bark, seeds, and other parts of plants, usually constituting the active principle of the crude drug. A substance of similar nature formed in animal tissues. Alkaloids are usually bitter in taste and alkaline in reaction and unite with acids to form salts. According to the usage of the U.S. and Br. Pharmacopeias, the name of an alkaloid terminates in -ina or -ine, thereby distinguishing it from a glucoside, the termination of which is-inum or -in.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A vegetable principle possessing in some degree alkaline properties.
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Pertaining to or resembling alkali.
By Daniel Lyons
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Of or like an alkali.
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A nitrogenous organic substance (generally vegetable) of poisonous properties.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Like an alkali.
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A nitrogenized substance of vegetable origin possessing in some degree the properties of an alkali.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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