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orcine

orcine is the dated form of orcin.

Meaning of orcin

Noun

orcin (countable and uncountable, plural orcins)

  1. The organic compound 3,5-dihydroxytoluene, found in many lichens and synthesizable from toluene.

Forms of orcine

pluralorcines

Questions about orcine

What is orcine the dated form of?
Orcine is the dated form of orcin.

Words near orcine in the dictionary

  1. orchotomies
  2. orchotomy
  3. Orchy
  4. ORCID
  5. orcin
  6. orcine
  7. orcines
  8. orcinol
  9. orcinols
  10. orcins
  11. orciprenaline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orcine (page history and authors); orcin (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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