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thalline
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thalline, a.
Consisting of a thallus. [1913 Webster]
thalline, n. [Gr. a young shoot or branch.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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