festucine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin festula (stalk, straw). Compare fescue. The chemical is called "festucine" because it is found in Festuca.

Adjective[edit]

festucine (comparative more festucine, superlative most festucine)

  1. (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, Pſeudoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly preſumed Truths, edition 3, Book 5, Chapter III, page 200:
      For here the true Cicada is not bred, but certain it is, that out of this, some kind of Locuſt doth proceed, for herein may be diſcovered a little inſect of a feſtucine or pale green, reſembling in all parts a Locuſt, or what we call a Graſhopper.
    • 1853, F. H. Stauffer, “Rose May, the new School-Mistress”, in The Family Fire-Side Book, page 314:
      [] ; and during the controversy and distracted attention, a beautiful young lady, habited in a black silk pelisse, a festucine dress, and an envious little straw bonnet, stepped out of the opposite side of the coach.
    • 1913, John Myers O'Hara, “Heliogabalus”, in Pagan Sonnets, page 10:
      [] laid
      Upon thy pouting lips the drench of wine!
      Above thy brow they massed the festucine
      Tresses and bound them with a mitra's braid;

Noun[edit]

festucine (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) Loline, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.
    • 1991, Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Poisonous plant contamination of edible plants, page 96:
      MS and NMR spectra of loline from L. cunneatum and festucine from Festuca arundinacea showed that both alkaloids are identical.

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