lupuline
French, noun\ly.py.lin\
lupuline is spelled L-U-P-U-L-I-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lupuline is a French masculine noun meaning “lupulin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom vernaculaire de Medicago lupulina, plante herbacée de la famille des Fabaceae, variété de luzerne à très…”.
What does lupuline mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelupulin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom vernaculaire de Medicago lupulina, plante herbacée de la famille des Fabaceae, variété de luzerne à très petites fleurs jaunes, utilisée comme fourrage.
noun: 1. Résine issue du houblon qui donne de l’amertume à la bière.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lupuline
- lupulines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lupuline?
- \ly.py.lin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lupuline in French?
lupuline appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).