Word.ws English Dictionary

manacein

manacein noun: an alkaloid-like substance derived from Brunfelsia hopeana (or manaca) that is soluble in hot alcohol but not in cold and precipitated by ether.

Noun

manacein (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) An alkaloid-like substance derived from Brunfelsia hopeana (or manaca) that is soluble in hot alcohol but not in cold and precipitated by ether.
    • Thomas M. Githens (1926), “Additional studies on miré”, in Journal of American Pharmaceutical Association, volume 15, pages 1067-1068

Origin of manacein

From manaca + -ein.

Questions about manacein

What does manacein mean?
Manacein means an alkaloid-like substance derived from Brunfelsia hopeana (or manaca) that is soluble in hot alcohol but not in cold and precipitated by ether.
What part of speech is manacein?
Manacein is a noun.

Words near manacein in the dictionary

  1. Manabí
  2. manaca
  3. Manaccan
  4. manace
  5. manaced
  6. manacein
  7. manaces
  8. manacin
  9. manacing
  10. manacle
  11. manacled

Source and license

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