Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A highly poisonous vegetable alkaloid discovered in the plant Delphinium Staphisagria.
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the Delphininæ.
- noun A species of Delphininæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (
Delphinium staphisagria ), as a colorless amorphous powder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A type of
toxic alkaloid found in some plants in theDelphinium family, which can also be usedmedicinally . - adjective Characteristic of
dolphins
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1921-1964 OsW Marine beasties supply ten animalines: cyprine carp 1828 O octopine octopus 1914 delphine dolphin 1828 OsW OW ostracine oyster 1890 delphinine dolphin O OW homarine lobster 1880 phocaenine porpoise OW 1890 OW manatine manatee OW phocine seal 1846 OW megapterine hump - back whale W Finally, beasts of the mind occupy the last three places in my extended corpus: basilicine basilisk 1855 sphinxine sphinx 1845
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