colocynthin
English edit
Etymology edit
colocynth + -in. Compare French colocynthine.
Noun edit
colocynthin (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter yellow crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “colocynthin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)