Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudomorphine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-mor-phine
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An inactive natural dimerization product of the morphine molecule in tandem, and thus a common impurity in morphine concentrations.

Uncountable

noun

Any ground beetle of the tribe Pseudomorphini, within the family Carabidae.

Example Sentences

"Relationships of pseudomorphines to other harpaline tribes are unsettled as stated by Deuve (1993: 98)."
"Known only from trap samples, nothing is known about their habits, although researchers suspect that they may be associated with ants or termites, like other pseudomorphines."

Etymology

From pseudo- + morphine.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

pseudomorphines (plural)

Synonyms

oxydimorphine dehydromorphine

Questions

What does pseudomorphine mean?: An inactive natural dimerization product of the morphine molecule in tandem, and thus a common impurity in morphine concentrations.
Where does pseudomorphine come from?: From pseudo- + morphine.

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