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What does pentacyclic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) having five rings, especially five fused rings as in many triterpenoids
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Ursolic acid and oleanic acid are pentacyclic triterpenes found abundantly in the plant kingdom.
Compounds in cat's claw called pentacyclic alkaloids have been shown in test-tube studies to have anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and detoxification properties.
Water-soluble pentacyclic triterpene composition made by subjecting pentacyclic triterpene compound to inclusion in cyclodextrin group.
Morphine is an amphoteric pentacyclic alkaloid that exists naturally in its levorotatory form as columnar colorless prisms.

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