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muscarine

muscarine noun: an extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.

Noun

muscarine (countable and uncountable, plural muscarines)

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

muscarine meaning in Tamil

muscarine in Tamil

மஸ்கரீன்

Forms of muscarine

pluralmuscarines

Origin of muscarine

From the fungus Amanita muscaria, from Latin musca (“fly”).

Words formed from muscarine

Questions about muscarine

What does muscarine mean?
Muscarine means an extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.
What is muscarine in Tamil?
Muscarine in Tamil is மஸ்கரீன். See Muscarine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is muscarine?
Muscarine is a noun.
What is the plural of muscarine?
The plural of muscarine is muscarines.

Words near muscarine in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muscarine (page history and authors); muscarine (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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