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quinacrine

quinacrine noun: a drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C₂₃H₃₀ClN₃O.

quinacrine: a drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula...
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Noun

quinacrine (countable and uncountable, plural quinacrines)

  1. A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C₂₃H₃₀ClN₃O.
    • ‘He said the poor man must be suffering from malaria, and the next day he bought him a tube of quinacrine.’1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 83

Synonyms of quinacrine

All synonyms of quinacrine

Forms of quinacrine

pluralquinacrines

Questions about quinacrine

What does quinacrine mean?
Quinacrine means a drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C₂₃H₃₀ClN₃O.
What part of speech is quinacrine?
Quinacrine is a noun.
What is the plural of quinacrine?
The plural of quinacrine is quinacrines.

Words near quinacrine in the dictionary

  1. quinacid
  2. quinacids
  3. quinacillin
  4. quinacridone
  5. quinacridones
  6. quinacrine
  7. quinacrines
  8. Quinagasan
  9. quinagolide
  10. Quinaielt
  11. quinalbarbitone

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