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Webster 1913 Edition


Conine

Co′nine

(? or [GREEK])
,
Noun.
[From
Conium
.]
(Chem.)
A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (
Conium maculatum
) and extracted as a colorless oil,
C8H17N
, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also
coniine
,
coneine
,
conia
, etc. See
Conium
, 2.

Definition 2024


conine

conine

English

Noun

conine (countable and uncountable, plural conines)

  1. Alternative spelling of coniine