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Etymology

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Payta +‎ -ine, from the place in Peru from which it was first brought.

Noun

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paytine (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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