veratralbine
English
editEtymology
editFrom Veratrum album + -ine.
Noun
editveratralbine (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A yellowish amorphous alkaloid, C28H43NO5, extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “veratralbine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)