arsino

[ ahr-see-noh ]

adjective

, Chemistry.

1. containing the arsino group.

Word History and Origins

Origin of arsino¹

arsine + -o-, construed as adj.

Example Sentences

Along the southern coast, where the houses of Seleucus and Ptolemy strove for predominance, we find the names of Berenice, Arsino� and Ptolemais confronting those of Antioch and Seleucia.

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In the centre of the entrance-wall are, Ptolemy-Philadelphus, and, on his left, his queen Arsino�, of red granite.

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Coquettish and feline with Alceste, frivolous and back-biting with the little marquises, cruelly ironical with Arsino�, in each act, in each scene, she shows herself under a different aspect.

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Mounds north of the town mark the site of Arsino�, earlier Crocodilopolis, where was worshipped the sacred crocodile kept in the Lake of Moeris.

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He renamed the city after his wife Arsino�, but the old name was soon resumed.

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