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quinicrine

quinicrine is the misspelling 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 quinicrine

What is quinicrine the misspelling of?
Quinicrine is the misspelling of quinacrine.

Words near quinicrine in the dictionary

  1. quinic
  2. quinic acid
  3. quinicia
  4. quinicine
  5. quinicines
  6. quinicrine
  7. quinidamine
  8. quinide
  9. quinides
  10. quinidia
  11. quinidine

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