Etymology

-verine

Today it means: Used to form names of spasmolytics with a papaverine-like action. Full definition →

English papaverine ← Latin papāver
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The story

  1. Latinpapāver
  2. Englishpapaverine
  3. English today-verine

From papaverine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.