pyrrolizidine
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editpyrrolizidine (plural pyrrolizidines)
- (organic chemistry) Any of a class of alkaloids, found in many plants, that are hepatotoxic.
- 2010, Eric David Morgan, Biosynthesis in Insects[1], page 320:
- Generally the pyrrolizidine alkaloids exist in plants as N-oxides, as shown for monocrotaline and seneciphylline.