menispermine

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English

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Etymology

Compare French ménispermine.

Noun

menispermine (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta cocculus, formerly Menispermum cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for menispermine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)