QUINOLINE


Meaning of QUINOLINE in English

noun a nitrogenous base, c9h7n obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, ·etc. it the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.

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