Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lutidine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lu-ti-dine
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Anderson in 1851 as a contracted anagram of toluidine, with which the compounds share their empirical formula

Usage

Inflected Forms

lutidines (plural)

Questions

What does lutidine mean?: Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.
Where does lutidine come from?: Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Anderson in 1851 as a contracted anagram of toluidine, with which the compounds share their empirical formula

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