Chem. [f. mod.L. Charac-eæ (see prec.) + -IN.] A camphorous substance found in Characeæ and other algoid plants.
1880. Nature, XXI. 220. It is characine that gives plants of the Chara genus their marshy odour; it is … a species of camphor, forming very thin pellicles on the water surface.
1881. Philada. Rec., No. 3455. 6. Chlorophyll and characine.
