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butenafine

butenafine noun: a synthetic benzylamine antifungal drug.

Noun

butenafine (uncountable)

  1. A synthetic benzylamine antifungal drug.
    • Get a fungicidal cream that contains terbinafine or butenafine at the drugstore; make sure that it’s not a fungistatic one containing, for example, clotrimazole, which “slows growth but won’t clear it,” she said.2009 August 6, Catherine Saint Louis, “The Groundwork”, in New York Times

Questions about butenafine

What does butenafine mean?
Butenafine means a synthetic benzylamine antifungal drug.
What part of speech is butenafine?
Butenafine is a noun.

Words near butenafine in the dictionary

  1. butchy
  2. bute
  3. Buteau
  4. Buteaus
  5. Butembo
  6. butenafine
  7. butenal
  8. butene
  9. butenedione
  10. butenediones
  11. butenes

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