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  • noun Plural form of spermine.

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  • All that -- that is the kochines, spermines, and so on -- seem to the public a kind of miracle that leaped forth from some brain, after the fashion of Pallas Athene; but people who have a closer acquaintance with the facts know that they are only the natural sequel of what has been done during the last twenty years.

    Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

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