Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A syrupy, colorless, fuming ptomaine, C5H14N2, formed by the carboxylation of lysine by bacteria in decaying animal flesh.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as cadaveric.
Wiktionary
- n. A foul-smelling diamine produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH2(CH2)5NH2. Cadaverine is also known by the names 1,5-pentanediamine and pentamethylenediamine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Chem.) A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, H2N.(CH2)5.NH2 (chemically
pentamethylene diamine ), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue
Examples
“In mammals, the structure of many of these decomposition products - with evocative names such as cadaverine - is known.”
“As they rode, Tom pulled a bottle of cadaverine from his pocket, dabbed some onto his clothes, and then handed the bottle to Benny.”
“They wear carpet coats, and they know the tricks of moving quietly and using cadaverine to mask their living smells.”
“He realized that his clothes were probably still ripe with the stench of cadaverine.”
“Remember when you threw that bottle of cadaverine to me with the cap loose, and I spilled it all over myself?”
“The cadaverine gave me a couple of seconds, and I rolled under a car.”
“We have guns and weapons, we have carpet coats, cadaverine.”
“He fished in his pocket and brought out three vials of cadaverine.”
“A vendor sold Tom a dozen bottles of cadaverine, which they sprinkled on their clothing, and a jar of peppermint goo that they dabbed on their upper lips, to kill their own sense of smell.”
“Tom folded the erosion portrait and put it in his pocket, then took out the vial of cadaverine and sprinkled some on his clothes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cadaverine’.
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
hircine, jumentous, hyena butter, cadaverine, new car smell, teen spirit, parosmia, hircismus, ylang-ylang, burnt hair, hydrogen sulfide, gay bomb and 115 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Encountered while reading
snatiation, urodynamics, cadaverine, putrescine, ferret emesis, dracula fish, psychedelic frogfish, mangkorn chomphoo, sengi, blonde-ginger bat, symplectic camel, zeolite and 312 more...
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Sounding like a superhero
Words that sound like they could be the name of a superhero. Or supervillain. Or one of their weapons. Or some form of super paraphernalia...
narcissistic supply, nipple discharge, Radium Girls, exotic pollution, superior meatus, toxic megacolon, neuroblast, extinction burst, butterfly eruption, natural killer cell, spongiform pustul..., zonule of Zinn and 155 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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döden
about death in its different forms.
euthanasia, autopsy, post mortem, disinter, rigor mortis, necropolis, requiem, epitaph, exhumation, sepulchre, sarcophagus, terminal burrowing and 60 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Usage on putrescine. Oct 2, 2008