coridine

English

Alternative forms

corindine

Etymology

From Latin cortium (“leather”), referring to its odour.

Noun

coridine (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A colourless or yellow oil (C₁₀H₁₅N) found in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base homologous with pyridine.
(organic chemistry) Any of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coridine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

cerionid