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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 tissueplay

  Familiarity information: CADAVERINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CADAVERINE (noun)


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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