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cyclamine

cyclamine is the alternative form of cyclamin.

Meaning of cyclamin

Noun

cyclamin (uncountable)

  1. A white amorphous substance, originally regarded as a glucoside but now known to be a triterpenoid glycoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen purpurascens.

Origin of cyclamine

From cyclam(en) + -ine (“chemical suffix”).

Questions about cyclamine

What is cyclamine the alternative form of?
Cyclamine is the alternative form of cyclamin.

Words near cyclamine in the dictionary

  1. cyclamic
  2. cyclamic acid
  3. cyclamide
  4. cyclamides
  5. cyclamin
  6. cyclamine
  7. cyclandelate
  8. cyclane
  9. cyclanthaceous
  10. cyclarbamate
  11. cyclarthrosis

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