Definition of Pieridine

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieridine

piercer
piercers
pierces
piercing
piercingly
piercingness
piercings
pierhead line
pierheads
pierid
pierides
pieridine (current term)
pierids
pierless
piermaster
piermasters
pierogi
pierogies
pierogis
pierre robin syndrome
pierrotite
pierrots
piers
pierst
piert
pies

Literary usage of Pieridine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of by William Jacob Holland (1902)
"Medium sized, white in color, more nearly related in the structure of its wings to the European genus Aporia than to any other of the American pieridine ..."

2. The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of by William Jacob Holland (1898)
"Medium sized, white in color, more nearly related in the structure of its wings to the European genus Aporia than to any other of the American pieridine ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... one of many different pieridine butterflies : a yellow pierian. These butterflies are of some shade oí yellow, »lanching to nearly white, or deepening ..."

4. The Chemical basis of pharmacology: : an Introduction to Pharmacodynamics by Francis Francis, J. M. Fortescue-Brickdale (1908)
"They are substitution products of a combined piperidine and pyrrolidine nucleus — CH2 - CH - CH Pyrrolidine N.CH3 Piperidine N.CH pieridine CH -'Xl2 ..."

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