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say it: KLAH-ni-deen
clonidine is a noun meaning "an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches". It is pronounced /ˈklɑnɪˌdin/ — KLAH-ni-deen. It carries one recorded sense.
an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches
trade name
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clonidine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.