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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?′r?-r?n or k?-r?′r?n; 104)

Noun.

(Chem.)

A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the

Strychnos toxifera

. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

curarine ‎(countable and uncountable, plural curarines)

alkaloid responsible for the poisonous effects of curare

curarine f