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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yellowish white, horn-like, levorotatory glucoside contained in the root of sarsaparilla, Smilax medica, S. officinalis, etc. It resembles saponin and was formerly called
sarsaparillasaponin or smilacin.
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