Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bitter poisonous alkaloid, C45H73NO15, derived from potato sprouts, tomatoes, and nightshade and having narcotic properties formerly used to treat epilepsy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A complex body, either itself an alkaloid or containing an alkaloid, the active principle of bittersweet, Solanum Dulcamara. It is a narcotic poison.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry A poisonous glycoalkaloid found in many species of the nightshade family.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also
solonia , andsolanina .
Etymologies
- French, from Latin sōlānum, nightshade, from sōl, sun; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Unripe tomatoes and the green "eyes" of potatoes contain solanine which can cause moderate nausea, vomiting, headache and diarrhea.”
“By the analysis of Desfosses, the berries furnish an alkaloid called solanine, possessed of marked properties.”
“Nightshades contain a chemical alkaloid called solanine which can trigger pain”
“According to another hypothesis, proposed by Paul Sherman, eating clay may help remove toxic chemicals found in some plants, such as solanine misspelled as solanin in Nature in potatoes.”
“The green is chlorophyll but can indicate the presence of solanine which is a toxic chemical.”
“The most dangerous plants contain one of these three chemicals — solanine, grayanotoxins, and cardiac glycosides.”
“He did pretty well too until he died after he ate the one thing he knew he shouldn't have - potato seeds (actually the fruit that houses them), which contained the toxic alkaloid solanine.”
“The green itself is harmless chlorophyll, but it can sometimes be associated with the development of solanine, a pretty nasty toxin found in members of the nightshade family, including potatoes.”
“These include the solanine, arsenic, and chaconine in potatoes, the hydrogen cyanide in lima beans, and the hallucinogenic compound myristicin found in nutmeg, black pepper, and carrots.”
The Wall Street Journal: Holiday Meals Rife With (Safe) Carcinogens!
“Most commercial varieties contain 2 to 15 milligrams of solanine and chaconine per quarter-pound 100 grams of potato.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
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Did Someone Say a Dinner Party?
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cyanide, botulinum, chlorine, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide gas, mercury, arsenic, ricin, strychnine, aconite, acetic acid, acetone and 147 more...
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