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CADAVERINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cadaverine mean?
• CADAVERINE (noun)
The noun CADAVERINE has 1 sense:
1. a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue
Familiarity information: CADAVERINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("cadaverine" is a kind of...):
ptomain; ptomaine (any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria)
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