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Fettucine vs Festucine - What's the difference?

fettucine | festucine |

As nouns the difference between fettucine and festucine

is that fettucine is misspelling of fettuccine while festucine is loline, an alkaloid with the formula C₈H₁₄N₂O.

As an adjective festucine is

of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.

fettucine

English

Noun

(-)
  • festucine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
  • * 1658 , Thomas Browne, P?eudoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly pre?umed Truths , edition 3, Book 5, Chapter III, page 200:
  • For here the true Cicada is not bred, but certain it is, that out of this, some kind of Locu?t doth proceed, for herein may be di?covered a little in?ect of a fe?tucine or pale green, re?embling in all parts a Locu?t, or what we call a Gra?hopper.
  • * 1853 , F. H. Stauffer, Rose May, the new School-Mistress'', in ''The Family Fire-Side Book , page 314:
  • ; and during the controversy and distracted attention, a beautiful young lady, habited in a black silk pelisse, a festucine dress, and an envious little straw bonnet, stepped out of the opposite side of the coach.
  • * 1913 , John Myers O'Hara, Heliogabalus'', in ''Pagan Sonnets , page 10:
  • laid
    Upon thy pouting lips the drench of wine!
    Above thy brow they massed the festucine
    Tresses and bound them with a mitra's braid;

    Noun

    (-)
  • (organic compound) Loline, an alkaloid with the formula C?H??N?O.
  • * 1991 , Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Poisonous plant contamination of edible plants , page 96:
  • MS and NMR spectra of loline from L. cunneatum'' and festucine from ''Festuca arundinacea showed that both alkaloids are identical.

    See also

    * norloline, lolidine