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morphine alkaloid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables
mor-phine al-ka-loid
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of about twenty closely related compounds obtained from the dried latex that exudes from the seed capsule of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.

Inflected Forms

morphine alkaloids (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

berberine codeine hydrastine morphine narceine narcotine papaverine sanguinarine

Synonyms

opium alkaloid

Questions

What does morphine alkaloid mean?
A group of about twenty closely related compounds obtained from the dried latex that exudes from the seed capsule of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.

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