malabaricane

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “-ane suffix?”) Isolated from the tree Ailanthus malabarica, now known as Ailanthus triphysa.

Noun

malabaricane (countable and uncountable, plural malabaricanes)

  1. (organic chemistry) A particular triterpene that is the basis of many natural products

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