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quinoline |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quinoline \Quin"o*line\, n. [Quinine + L. oleum oil + -ine.] (Chem.) 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 [Written also {chinoline}.]
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