Definitions for piperine

piperine pip·er·ine

Spelling: [pip-uh-reen, -er-in]
IPA: /ˈpɪp əˌrin, -ər ɪn/

Piperine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in piperine (eeiinppr).

Definitions for piperine

noun

  1. a white, crystalline alkaloid, C 17 H 19 NO 3 , obtained from pepper and other piperaceous plants and also prepared synthetically: used as an insecticide.

Origin of piperine

1810-20; Latin piper pepper + -ine1

Examples for piperine

piperine, the alkaloid of pepper, has also been well studied.

It also contains a mere trace of piperina or piperine, one of the most valuable constituents of black pepper.

He has proved that the alkaloid so obtained is identical with that prepared from piperine.

Pepper owes its properties to an alkaloid, piperine, and to a volatile oil.

piperine colours the sulphuric acid blood-red, and is turned dark-brown, almost black by the cerium oxide (Sonnenschein).

Word Value for piperine
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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