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barbiturates

barbiturates is the plural of barbiturate.

Meaning of barbiturate

Noun

barbiturate (plural barbiturates)

  1. Any salt or ester of barbituric acid.
  2. Any of derivatives of barbituric acid that act as depressants of the central nervous system and are used as sedatives or hypnotics.
    • Following the “Summer of Love” in 1967, amphetamines and barbiturates began to replace psychedelics as the dominant drugs used in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, and increasing numbers of individuals were treated at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic for complications following...1977, Donald R. Wesson, David Elvin Smith, Barbiturates, their use, misuse, and abuse, New York: Human Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 9
    Synonyms:
    barb, barbie, goofball

Questions about barbiturates

What is barbiturates the plural of?
Barbiturates is the plural of barbiturate.

Words near barbiturates in the dictionary

  1. barbitos
  2. barbituate
  3. barbituates
  4. barbiturase
  5. barbiturate
  6. barbiturates
  7. barbituratism
  8. barbituric
  9. barbituric acid
  10. barbiturism
  11. Barbizon

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