Word.ws English Dictionary

bebeerine

bebeerine noun: an alkaloid found in the bark of the bibiru (Chlorocardium rodiei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.

Noun

bebeerine (countable and uncountable, plural bebeerines)

  1. An alkaloid found in the bark of the bibiru (Chlorocardium rodiei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.

Forms of bebeerine

pluralbebeerines
alternative formbebirine
alternative formbibirine

Origin of bebeerine

From bibiru + -ine.

Questions about bebeerine

What does bebeerine mean?
Bebeerine means an alkaloid found in the bark of the bibiru (Chlorocardium rodiei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.
What part of speech is bebeerine?
Bebeerine is a noun.
What is the plural of bebeerine?
The plural of bebeerine is bebeerines.

Words near bebeerine in the dictionary

  1. bebeasted
  2. bebeasting
  3. bebeasts
  4. bebee
  5. bebeerin
  6. bebeerine
  7. bebeerines
  8. bebeeru
  9. bebeerus
  10. bebees
  11. Bebel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bebeerine (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: “bebeerine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bebeerine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.