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pentaquine

pentaquine is the alternative form of pentaquin.

Meaning of pentaquin

Noun

pentaquin (uncountable)

  1. An 8-amino-quinoline derivative used to treat malaria.

Origin of pentaquine

From -quine (“quinoline derivative”).

Questions about pentaquine

What is pentaquine the alternative form of?
Pentaquine is the alternative form of pentaquin.

Words near pentaquine in the dictionary

  1. pentapyrrolic
  2. pentaquadrupole
  3. pentaquark
  4. pentaquarks
  5. pentaquin
  6. pentaquine
  7. pentaradial
  8. pentaradiality
  9. pentaradially
  10. pentaradiate
  11. pentarch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pentaquine (page history and authors); pentaquin (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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