indole

See also: índole

English

Etymology

From indigo +‎ Latin oleum (“oil”); see -ole.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndəʊl/, /ˈɪndɒl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndoʊl/, /ˈɪndɑl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

indole (plural indoles)

1. (organic chemistry) An organic compound, C₈H₇N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fused with a pyrrole ring; indole and its derivatives occur widely in nature and have many industrial applications.

   Synonym: ketole

   • 1990, Song Liu, Syntheses of Aspidosperma Alkaloids, page 2:

     The Aspidosperma alkaloids are the largest group of indole alkaloids.

   • 1999, Lars Ove Dragsted, Naturally Occurring Antitumourigens‎, page 41:

     Intakes of indoles or their parental glucosinolates, may have beneficial health effects as well as toxicological effects.

2. (organic chemistry) Any of the derivatives of indole.

Hyponyms

• acemetacin
• atevirdine
• cediranib
• dirlotapide
• dolasetron
• gramine
• indalpine
• indican
• indoleamine
• indolequinone
• indometacin
• indoxyl
• isoindole
• mebhydrolin
• monatin
• naltrindole
• oxametacin
• paxilline
• pindolol
• ramosetron
• sertindole
• sumatriptan
• tenidap
• tropisetron

Derived terms

• azaindole
• bisindole
• bromoindole
• diindole
• fendosal
• Fischer indole synthesis
• indisetron
• indolamine
• indolate
• indoleacetic
• indoleacetic acid
• indole alkaloid
• indoleamine
• indolebutyric acid
• indolic
• indolyl
• indoyl
• isoindole
• methylindole
• naphthoylindole
• nitroindole
• phenylindole
• phytoindole
• pyrroloindole
• ropinirole
• spiroindole
• tetraindole
• triindole

Translations

organic compound

Afrikaans: indool Arabic: إندول Chinese: Cantonese: 吲哚 (jan5 do2) Mandarin: 吲哚 (zh) (yǐnduǒ) Danish: indol ? Dutch: indool ? Esperanto: indolo Finnish: indoli French: indole (fr) m German: Indol n Hungarian: indol (hu) Indonesian: indol (id) Italian: indolo (it) m Japanese: インドール (indōru) Kannada: ಇಂಡೋಲ್ (iṇḍōl) Kazakh: индол (indol) Korean: 인돌 (indol) Kyrgyz: индол (indol) Malayalam: ഇൻഡോൾ (iṉḍōḷ) Norwegian: Bokmål: indol m Nynorsk: indol m Persian: ایندول Polish: benzopirol m, indol (pl) m Portuguese: indol (pt) m Romanian: indol (ro) m Russian: индо́л (ru) m (indól) Serbo-Croatian: indol ? Spanish: indol m Swedish: indol ? Thai: อินโดล Ukrainian: індол ? (indol)

Adjective

indole (comparative more indole, superlative most indole)

1. (obsolete) guileless

Further reading

• indole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• El Nido, Leonid, Liendo, dienol, doline, elonid, loined, olenid

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

indole m (plural indoles)

1. indole

Further reading

• “indole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.