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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A colorless crystalline compound, C15H18O3, obtained from species of wormwood, especially santonica, and formerly used as an anthelmintic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bitter substance (C15H18O3), the active principle of santonica, or wormseed.

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

  • noun (Chem.) A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

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

  • noun chemistry An anthelmintic found in santonica and related plants.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[santon(ica) + –in.]

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From santon(ica) +‎ -in.

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