Festucine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Festucine is an adjective meaning (organic chemistry) Loline, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.
Meaning
(organic chemistry) Loline, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
Example Sentences
MS and NMR spectra of loline from L. cunneatum and festucine from Festuca arundinacea showed that both alkaloids are identical.
[…] laid Upon thy pouting lips the drench of wine! Above thy brow they massed the festucine Tresses and bound them with a mitra's braid;
[…]; and during the controversy and distracted attention, a beautiful young lady, habited in a black silk pelisse, a festucine dress, and an envious little straw bonnet, stepped out of the opposite side of the coach.
For here the true Cicada is not bred, but certain it is, that out of this, some kind of Locuſt doth proceed, for herein may be diſcovered a little inſect of a feſtucine or pale green, reſembling in all parts a Locuſt, or what we call a Graſhopper.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fucate, fustian, fuligin, fucoid, fuchsia, subfusk.
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