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cumarin

cumarin is the alternative form of coumarin.

Meaning of coumarin

Noun

coumarin (countable and uncountable, plural coumarins)

  1. The bicyclic aromatic compound 1,2-benzopyrone or any of its derivatives.
    • The postulated mechanism for the reaction of coumarin 4 as an antioxidant, as indicated in Fig 3, relies on the mercapto hydrogen atom (bold), which is under the influence of resonance and inductive effects.2015 July 6, “Hydrogen Peroxide Scavenging Activity of Novel Coumarins Synthesized Using Different Approaches”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of cumarin

pluralcumarins

Questions about cumarin

What is cumarin the alternative form of?
Cumarin is the alternative form of coumarin.

Words near cumarin in the dictionary

  1. Cumanagoto
  2. Cumanagotos
  3. Cumans
  4. Cumaná
  5. cumaric
  6. cumarin
  7. cumarins
  8. cumaru
  9. cumarus
  10. cumaryl
  11. cumate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cumarin (page history and authors); coumarin (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.

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