nicotinelike

English

Etymology

From nicotine +‎ -like.

Adjective

nicotinelike (comparative more nicotinelike, superlative most nicotinelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of nicotine.
    • 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[1]:
      Mechoulam concluded that our bodies must produce their own cannabinoids — endogenous molecules that, like the native opioids and nicotinelike molecules our bodies also make, engage the cannabinoid receptors throughout the human body.
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