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<prefix>
1. A combining form or prefix meaning white, colourless.
2. <chemistry> Denoting an extensive series of colourless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other coloured compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc.
Origin: Gr. White.
(29 Oct 1998)
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