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muscarin

muscarin is the archaic form of muscarine.

Meaning of muscarine

Noun

muscarine (countable and uncountable, plural muscarines)

  1. An extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.

Questions about muscarin

What is muscarin the archaic form of?
Muscarin is the archaic form of muscarine.

Words near muscarin in the dictionary

  1. muscardinid
  2. muscardinids
  3. muscardins
  4. Muscarella
  5. Muscarellas
  6. muscarin
  7. muscarine
  8. muscarinergic
  9. muscarines
  10. muscarinic
  11. muscarinics

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