pseudomorphine

pseudomorphine

English

Etymology 1

pseudo- +‎ morphine

Noun

pseudomorphine (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) An inactive natural dimerization product of the morphine molecule in tandem, and thus a common impurity in morphine concentrations.

   Synonyms: oxydimorphine, dehydromorphine

Noun

pseudomorphine (plural pseudomorphines)

1. (zoology) Any ground beetle of the tribe Pseudomorphini, within the family Carabidae.
   • 2012, Yves Bousquet, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, North of Mexico (page 66)

     Relationships of pseudomorphines to other harpaline tribes are unsettled as stated by Deuve (1993: 98).

   • 2023, Arthur V. Evans, The Lives of Beetles: A Natural History of Coleoptera (page 146)

     Known only from trap samples, nothing is known about their habits, although researchers suspect that they may be associated with ants or termites, like other pseudomorphines.