Word.ws English Dictionary

apoharmine

apoharmine noun: an alkaloid, C₈H₈N₂, derived from harmic acid, that behaves similarly to harmine, but that has greater solubility in water.

Noun

apoharmine (uncountable)

  1. An alkaloid, C₈H₈N₂, derived from harmic acid, that behaves similarly to harmine, but that has greater solubility in water.
    • Since apoharmine can be reduced both to dihydro- and tetrahydroapoharmine (242), it still contains the unsaturated nucleus present in harmine.1952, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Physiology, page 395
    • Apoharmine and apoadifoline also exhibit similar colour changes in Dische's carbazole test.1961, Chemical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Chemical Society (part 3, page 2716)

Origin of apoharmine

From apo- + harmine.

Questions about apoharmine

What does apoharmine mean?
Apoharmine means an alkaloid, C₈H₈N₂, derived from harmic acid, that behaves similarly to harmine, but that has greater solubility in water.
What part of speech is apoharmine?
Apoharmine is a noun.

Words near apoharmine in the dictionary

  1. apographal
  2. apographic
  3. apographs
  4. apogée
  5. apogées
  6. apoharmine
  7. Apohele
  8. Apohele asteroid
  9. Apohele asteroids
  10. Apoheles
  11. apohemoglobin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apoharmine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “apoharmine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/apoharmine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.