Definitions for piperines

piperines pip·er·ine

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

Piperines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in piperines (eeiinpprs).

Definitions for piperines

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 piperines

1810-20; Latin piper pepper + -ine1

Examples for piperines

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for piperines
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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