Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

muscarine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

Syllables: mus-carine
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From the fungus Amanita muscaria, from Latin musca (“fly”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: musca

Usage

Inflected Forms

muscarines (plural)

Derived Forms

muscarinergic muscarinic

Questions

What does muscarine mean?: An extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.
Where does muscarine come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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