loline
English
editEtymology
editSo named because it is found in Lolium.
Noun
editloline (plural lolines)
- (organic chemistry) festucine or any of several similar alkaloids
- 1991, Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Poisonous plant contamination of edible plants, page 96:
- Hydrolysis of lolidine yields loline and norloline:
[…]
MS and NMR spectra of loline from L. cunneatum and festucine from Festuca arundinacea showed that both alkaloids are identical.