Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid, C15H26N2, that is present in the broom Cytisus scoparius and in the seeds of several species of Lupinus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liquid alkaloid (C15H26N2) obtained from the common broom, Cytisus (Spartium) scoparius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (
Cytisus scoparius , formerlySpartium scoparium ), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
toxic tetracyclic alkaloid obtained from both thebroom andlupin plants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He returned to the lab and cooked up a brew consisting of some exotic poisons: atropine (a naturally occurring alkaloid of atropia belladonna or deadly nightshade), sparteine (a compound derived from the European shrub Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius), and pilocarpine hydrochloride (an alkaloid found in the leaves of a South American shrub, Pilocarpus jaborandi).
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Thus, it would active by the debrisoquine-sparteine oxidative not be a surprise if race gives rise to fewer differ - pathway.
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