aporphinoid

Etymology

From aporphine + -oid.

aporphinoid means related to aporphine. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

adj

Related to aporphine.“Following the erroneous assignment of an aporphinoid structure to argemonine (15), various structures were considered based on degradative and spectral evidence (16,17).”

noun

An aporphinoid alkaloid; any of a group of related alkaloids that have aporphine as a core chemical substructure.“In recent years, the pharmacological activity of aporphinoids has been the subject of a great deal of research in the field of natural products.”