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pyrrolizidines

pyrrolizidines is the plural of pyrrolizidine.

Meaning of pyrrolizidine

Noun

pyrrolizidine (plural pyrrolizidines)

  1. Any of a class of alkaloids, found in many plants, that are hepatotoxic.
    • Generally the pyrrolizidine alkaloids exist in plants as N-oxides, as shown for monocrotaline and seneciphylline.2010, Eric David Morgan, Biosynthesis in Insects, page 320

Questions about pyrrolizidines

What is pyrrolizidines the plural of?
Pyrrolizidines is the plural of pyrrolizidine.

Words near pyrrolizidines in the dictionary

  1. pyrrolines
  2. pyrrolinone
  3. pyrrolinones
  4. pyrrolizidine
  5. pyrrolizidine alkaloidosis
  6. pyrrolizidines
  7. pyrrolizine
  8. pyrrolizines
  9. pyrrolnitrin
  10. pyrrolo
  11. pyrrolobenzodiazepine

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