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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F.

nicotianine

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(Chem.)

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also

tobacco camphor

nicotianine ‎(uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A white waxy substance with a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves.