thalline (comparative more thalline, superlative most thalline)
(botany) Having a thallus
thalline (uncountable)
(obsolete, medicine) Any of several derivatives of quinoline used as an antipyretic
Source: Wiktionary
Thal"line, a. (Bot.)
Definition: Consisting of a thallus.
Thal"line, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)
Definition: An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 December 2024
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one’s employer; “We found out that she had been fiddling for years”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
