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Quintine vs Quintile - What's the difference?

quintine | quintile |


As nouns the difference between quintine and quintile

is that quintine is (botany) the embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument while quintile is (statistics) any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

Quinine vs Quintine - What's the difference?

quinine | quintine |


As nouns the difference between quinine and quintine

is that quinine is (pharmaceutical drug) a bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water while quintine is (botany) the embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument.