picrotoxin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A poisonous material, extracted from the seeds of plants of species Anamirta cocculus, used as a stimulant; it is a complex of two alkaloids: picrotoxinin and picrotin.

picrotoxin picrotoxins

From picro- + toxin.

cocculin

picrotoxic

picrotoxinin

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