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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ptomain prepared by Neucki from decaying glue. It is an oily, colorless liquid (C8H11N), has an agreeable odor, and is very poisonous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry Any of six isomers of trimethylpyridine

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Ancient Greek

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