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Aconitine
noun · 78% connection
An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Atropine
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Belladonna
noun · 78% connection
An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Brucine
noun · 78% connection
A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Casein
noun · 78% connection
A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and const…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Cicuta
noun · 78% connection
a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Cicutoxin
noun · 78% connection
The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Colchicine
noun · 78% connection
A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Colorless
adjective · 78% connection
Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorles…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Conhydrine
noun · 78% connection
A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Conium
noun · 78% connection
The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Convolvulin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Corrovaline
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Cowbane
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. Se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Curare
noun · 78% connection
a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by bloc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Curarine
noun · 78% connection
A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Delphinine
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.
Ergotine
unknown · 78% connection
A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: powerful, poisonous, vegetable, alkaloid, found.