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Webster 1913 Edition
Conine
Co′nine
(? or [GREEK])
, Noun.
[From
Conium
.] (Chem.)
A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (
Conium maculatum
) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N
, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine
, coneine
, conia
, etc. See Conium
, 2.