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menispermine Chem.|mɛnɪˈspɜːmɪn|
Also -ina, -in.
[f. mod.L. Mēnisperm-um (see menisperm + -ine5.]
An alkaloid obtained from the shells of the fruit of the Cocculus indicus, Anamirta (formerly Menispermum) Cocculus. Also † meniˈspermia.
1837Penny Cycl. VII. 306/2 The kernel [of the fruit of Cocculus indicus] contains about one part in the hundred of picrotoxia, or menispermia, as some term it. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 224 Menispermina..is white and opaque, and has very much the external appearance of cyanodide of mercury. 1852J. Bell in Lect. Gt. Exhib. 141 Menispermin. 1880Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 188 An alkaloid, Menispermine. |