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quinacrines

quinacrines is the plural of quinacrine.

Meaning of quinacrine

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

Questions about quinacrines

What is quinacrines the plural of?
Quinacrines is the plural of quinacrine.

Words near quinacrines in the dictionary

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

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