Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A glucoside resin which is one of the purgative principles of jalap and of various plants of the convolvulaceous order. See
jalap .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The active principle of
scammony , theglucoside withchemical formula C34H114O6, a powerfulpurgative .
Etymologies
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jalap + -in
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Examples
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The active principle in aloes is aloin; of jalap, jalapin; of white hellebore, veratria; and of colchicum, colchicin.
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