adj
Meaning 1
Relating to, resembling, or containing alkali.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
alkaloid
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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US: /ˈæl.kə.lɔɪd/
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noun
Meaning 2
Any of many organic (often heterocyclic) bases that occur in nature and often have medicinal properties.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: organic compound
Narrower terms: atropine, hyoscyamine, pilocarpine, scopolamine, hyoscine, physostigmine, cinchonine, ephedrine, ergonovine, Ergotrate Maleate, ergotamine, pseudoephedrine, nicotine, strychnine, brucine, betaine, caffeine, caffein, rauwolfia, tubocurarine, curare
History
Etymology
From alkali + -oid. Compare French alcaloïde.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: قَلْوَانِيّ (qalwāniyy) — organic heterocyclic base
- Catalan: alcaloide — organic heterocyclic base
- Czech: alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Danish: alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Esperanto: alkaloido — organic heterocyclic base
- Estonian: alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Finnish: alkaloidi — organic heterocyclic base
- French: alcaloïde — organic heterocyclic base
- Galician: alcaloide — organic heterocyclic base
- Georgian: ალკალოიდი (alḳaloidi) — organic heterocyclic base
- German: Alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Greek: αλκαλοειδές (alkaloeidés) — organic heterocyclic base
- Hungarian: alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Icelandic: beiskjuefni — organic heterocyclic base
- Ido: alkaloido — organic heterocyclic base
- Irish: alcalóideach — organic heterocyclic base
- Italian: alcaloide — organic heterocyclic base
- Japanese: アルカロイド (arukaroido) — organic heterocyclic base
- Kazakh: алкалоид (alkaloid) — organic heterocyclic base
- Korean: 알칼로이드 (alkalloideu) — organic heterocyclic base
- Norwegian Bokmål: alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Norwegian Nynorsk: alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Polish: alkaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Portuguese: alcaloide — organic heterocyclic base
- Romanian: alcaloid — organic heterocyclic base
- Russian: алкало́ид (alkalóid) — organic heterocyclic base
- Serbo-Croatian: алкало̀ӣд — organic heterocyclic base
- Serbo-Croatian: alkalòīd — organic heterocyclic base
- Spanish: alcaloide — organic heterocyclic base
- Turkish: alkaloit — organic heterocyclic base
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