| thalline | <botany> Consisting of a thallus. <chemistry> 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 colour produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents. Origin: Gr. A young shoot or branch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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