alkaloid

See also: Alkaloid

English

Etymology

From alkali +‎ -oid. Compare French alcaloïde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæl.kə.lɔɪd/

Noun

alkaloid (plural alkaloids)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of many organic heterocyclic bases that occur in nature and often have medicinal properties.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:alkaloid

Related terms

• alkaloidal
• alkaloidiferous

Translations

organic heterocyclic base

• Catalan: alcaloide (ca) m
• Czech: alkaloid m
• Danish: alkaloid c
• Esperanto: alkaloido
• Estonian: alkaloid (et)
• Finnish: alkaloidi (fi)
• French: alcaloïde (fr) m
• Galician: alcaloide m
• German: Alkaloid (de)
• Greek: αλκαλοειδές (el) n (alkaloeidés)
• Hungarian: alkaloid (hu)
• Icelandic: beiskjuefni n
• Ido: alkaloido (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: alcalóideach m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: アルカロイド (arukaroido)
• Kazakh: алкалоид (alkaloid)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alkaloid (no) n

  Nynorsk: alkaloid n

• Polish: alkaloid (pl) m
• Portuguese: alcaloide (pt) m
• Romanian: alcaloid (ro) m
• Russian: алкало́ид (ru) m (alkalóid)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алкало̀ӣд m

  Roman: alkalòīd m

• Spanish: alcaloide (es) m
• Turkish: alkaloid (tr)

See also

• atropine
• codeine
• Demerol
• emetine
• ergotamine
• lysergic acid
• meperidine
• morphine
• nicotine

• papaverine
• pethidine
• piperidine
• reserpine
• scopine
• strychnine
• thebaine
• yohimbine

Adjective

alkaloid (comparative more alkaloid, superlative most alkaloid)

1. Relating to, resembling, or containing alkali.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alkaloid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Czech

Noun

1. alkaloid

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From alkali +‎ -oid

Noun

alkaloid n (definite singular alkaloidet, indefinite plural alkaloid or alkaloider, definite plural alkaloida or alkaloidene)

1. (organic chemistry) an alkaloid

References

• “alkaloid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “alkaloid” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From alkali +‎ -oid

Noun

alkaloid n (definite singular alkaloidet, indefinite plural alkaloid, definite plural alkaloida)

1. (organic chemistry) an alkaloid

References

• “alkaloid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.kaˈlɔ.it/

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Noun

alkaloid m inan

1. alkaloid

Declension

Declension of alkaloid

	singular	plural
nominative	alkaloid	alkaloidy
genitive	alkaloidu	alkaloidów
dative	alkaloidowi	alkaloidom
accusative	alkaloid	alkaloidy
instrumental	alkaloidem	alkaloidami
locative	alkaloidzie	alkaloidach
vocative	alkaloidzie	alkaloidy

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alkalǒiːd/
• Hyphenation: al‧ka‧lo‧id

Noun

alkalòīd m (Cyrillic spelling алкало̀ӣд)

1. alkaloid

Declension

Declension of alkaloid

	singular	plural
nominative	alkalòīd	alkaloídi
genitive	alkaloída	alkaloida
dative	alkaloidu	alkaloidima
accusative	alkalòīd	alkaloide
vocative	alkaloide	alkaloidi
locative	alkaloidu	alkaloidima
instrumental	alkaloidom	alkaloidima