thermifugine

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek for "heat" + Latin fugere to flee.

Noun

thermifugine (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) An artificial alkaloid resembling thalline, used as an antipyretic.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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