aspidosperma
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A group of indole alkaloids that are found in these trees, noted for a tetracyclic framework and modifications in the carbon skeleton that arise during their biosynthesis via the mevalonate pathway.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Aspidospermas have good bending qualities."
- "CA - 08869-04 Heterolytic fragmentation as applied to the synthesis of aspidosperma alkaloids"
- "The Aspidosperma alkaloids are the largest group of indole alkaloids."
- "The structurally more complex aspidosperma, strychnos, and iboga alkaloids may each be derived from the corynanthe alkaloids."
- "Fortunately, however, this profusion of skeleta can be grouped into so-called borynanthe, aspidosperma, and iboga types (Geissman & Crout 1969), according to the disposition of C-atoms in the mevalonate moiety, which may have preserved the original arrangement (corynanthe) or suffered two kinds of rearrangement (aspidosperma, iboga)."