THALLINE

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Consisting of a thallus.

2.
n.

An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.


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