Plural of cumarin; a class of fragrant organic compounds found in many plants, used in perfumes, medications, and flavoring agents.
The plural form of 'cumarin', following standard English pluralization. The base word derives from Tupi 'cumaru' through Portuguese and French scientific nomenclature.
Coumarins are now famous in anticoagulant medicine—warfarin, a lifesaving blood thinner, is a synthetic coumarin, meaning a South American tree resin led to a drug that's saved millions of heart patients.
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