cholesterine

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A form of cholesterin

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nouncholesterine (countable and uncountable, plural cholesterines)

plural cholesterines

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of cholesterin.

    "I had foreseen it and I had put some cholesterine among the paraffin in the zinc pail."

    1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

Origin

  1. Frenchcholestérine
  2. Englishcholesterine

From French cholestérine.

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APA

cholesterine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cholesterine

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cholesterine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cholesterine.

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