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jamaicine

jamaicine noun: a bitter alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of Jamaica and Suriname.

Noun

jamaicine (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A bitter alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of Jamaica and Suriname.

Origin of jamaicine

From Jamaica + -ine.

Questions about jamaicine

What does jamaicine mean?
Jamaicine means a bitter alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of Jamaica and Suriname.
What part of speech is jamaicine?
Jamaicine is a noun.

Words near jamaicine in the dictionary

  1. Jamaicanizes
  2. Jamaicanizing
  3. Jamaicanness
  4. Jamaicans
  5. jamaicin
  6. jamaicine
  7. jamais vu
  8. Jamal
  9. Jamalpur
  10. Jamalpur District
  11. Jamamadi

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