iridoline

English

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Etymology

From iridescent +‎ oleum (“oil”).

Noun

iridoline (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A nitrogenous base of the quinoline series, C₁₀H₉N, extracted from coal-tar naphtha as an oily liquid; probably identical with lepidine.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “iridoline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)