chinoline

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chinoline (usually uncountable, plural chinolines)

1. Dated form of quinoline.

• “chinoline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Nicholine

Borrowed from German Chinolin, coined (as Chinoleïn/Chinoilin) by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, named after China.

• Hyphenation: chi‧no‧li‧ne

chinoline f (uncountable)

1. quinoline

chinoline f

1. plural of chinolina

• Nichelino, nichelino