ptomaines
Meaning of ptomaines
plural noun
any of a group of amine compounds of unpleasant taste and odour formed in putrefying animal and vegetable matter and formerly thought to cause food poisoning.
late 19th century: from French ptomaïne, from Italian ptomaina, formed irregularly from Greek ptōma ‘corpse’.
Information about ptomaines
- It is a name.
- The singular form of ptomaines is: ptomaine.
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Hyphenation of ptomaines
ptomaines
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- ptomaines is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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