vernonin

English

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Etymology

Vernonia +‎ -in

Noun

vernonin (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, used as a mild heart tonic.

References

“vernonin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Vernonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vernonin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)