Word Meanings - ALKALOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals. Note: Alcaloids all contain nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen, and many of them also contain oxygen. They include many

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An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals. Note: Alcaloids all contain nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen, and many of them also contain oxygen. They include many of the active principles in plants; thus, morphine and narcotine are alkaloids found in opium.

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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CARBONATATION
  The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• HYDROGENIUM
  Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• OXYGENIZE
  To oxidize.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• CARBONIDE
  A carbide.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• OXYGENATOR
  An oxidizer.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• OXYGENIC
  Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORME
  First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• MONOCARBONIC
  Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
• DEOXYGENATE
  To deoxidize.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.