Crossword-Solution: PTOMAINE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ptomaine | n. | One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PTOMAINE | anagram | TOMPAINE |
We have 24 clues for the answer “PTOMAINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANIMAL matter, substance in decaying | 1 answer |
| any of a group of poisonous alkaloids found in decaying matter | 1 answer |
| Toxic organic compound | 1 answer |
| Substance falsely tied to food poisoning | 1 answer |
| Putrescine, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Product of protein decay | 1 answer |
| Product of organic decay | 1 answer |
| Product of decay | 1 answer |
| N compound that rarely causes poisoning | 1 answer |
| DECAYING animal matter, substance found in | 1 answer |
| Compound once thought to cause food poisoning | 1 answer |
| Bacteria in spoiled food. | 1 answer |
| AMINE compound in putrefying animal and vegetable matter | 1 answer |
| Food-poisoning cause | 2 answers |
| Food poisoning cause | 2 answers |
| __ poisoning | 3 answers |
| food poisoning | 3 answers |
| decay, trees | 10 answers |
| COMPOUND NITROGEN | 10 answers |
| CAUSE TYPHOID FEVER AND FOOD POISONING | 10 answers |
| A LEADING CAUSE OF LIVESTOCK POISONING IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES | 11 answers |
| A DECAY PRODUCT OF URANIUM AND THORIUM | 11 answers |
| decay timber | 11 answers |
| blood poisoning | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEZAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PTOMAINE (5)
Dick would cry and say she didn't care to live, anyhow, and she wished she had died of ptomaine poisoning the time she ate the bad oysters at school.
What I had, it developed, was a severe case of ptomaine poisoning, and I soon recovered; but even after all these years I do not like to recall that night.
Can't you look in at the hotel this afternoon? My mother will be here at the time.'" "Ptomaine poisoning!" The name had an ugly sound, and Condy's use of the term inferred the doctor's visit.
Who could say? To-morrow, or some other day, a ptomaine bug, or some other of a thousand bugs, might jump out upon him and drag him down.
And that old, specious, dressed-up, garbled, sea-sick ptomaine prancing about avidiously like an irremediable turkey gobbler with patent leather shoes on is my best friend.
Quotes with PTOMAINE (1)
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Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).