Dictionary entry

Cryptidine

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cryp″ti‐dine (kr?p″t?–d?n; 104), n. [Gr. κρυπτόσ hidden.] (Chem.) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.