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-oline

-oline suffix: indicating a 5-ring heterocyclic compound with nitrogen and one double bond.

Suffix

-oline

  1. (obsolete) Indicating a 5-ring heterocyclic compound with nitrogen and one double bond

Origin of -oline

IUPAC Commission of Nomenclature for Heterocyclic Compounds (1957)

Questions about -oline

What does -oline mean?
-oline means indicating a 5-ring heterocyclic compound with nitrogen and one double bond.
What part of speech is -oline?
-oline is a suffix.

Words near -oline in the dictionary

  1. -ola
  2. -olater
  3. -olatry
  4. -ole
  5. -olidine
  6. -oline
  7. -ologist
  8. -ology
  9. -olol
  10. -olone
  11. -oma

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