Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bitter poisonous alkaloid, C45H73NO15, found in potatoes and other plants of the nightshade family. It has narcotic properties and was formerly used to treat epilepsy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A complex body, either itself an alkaloid or containing an alkaloid, the active principle of bittersweet, Solanum Dulcamara. It is a narcotic poison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (
Solanum nigrum ), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called alsosolonia , andsolanina .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A poisonous
glycoalkaloid found in many species of thenightshade family.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Unripe tomatoes and the green "eyes" of potatoes contain solanine which can cause moderate nausea, vomiting, headache and diarrhea.
Poisonous Plants 2010
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By the analysis of Desfosses, the berries furnish an alkaloid called solanine, possessed of marked properties.
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Nightshades contain a chemical alkaloid called solanine which can trigger pain
Emaxhealth 2010
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According to another hypothesis, proposed by Paul Sherman, eating clay may help remove toxic chemicals found in some plants, such as solanine misspelled as solanin in Nature in potatoes.
Archive 2006-12-01 AYDIN 2006
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According to another hypothesis, proposed by Paul Sherman, eating clay may help remove toxic chemicals found in some plants, such as solanine misspelled as solanin in Nature in potatoes.
Let them it dirt! AYDIN 2006
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The green is chlorophyll but can indicate the presence of solanine which is a toxic chemical.
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The most dangerous plants contain one of these three chemicals — solanine, grayanotoxins, and cardiac glycosides.
Poisonous Plants 2010
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He did pretty well too until he died after he ate the one thing he knew he shouldn't have - potato seeds (actually the fruit that houses them), which contained the toxic alkaloid solanine.
Into the Wild ... 2008
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The green itself is harmless chlorophyll, but it can sometimes be associated with the development of solanine, a pretty nasty toxin found in members of the nightshade family, including potatoes.
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These include the solanine, arsenic, and chaconine in potatoes, the hydrogen cyanide in lima beans, and the hallucinogenic compound myristicin found in nutmeg, black pepper, and carrots.
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Had Martin added genes that increased production of solanine — a toxic chemical produced by plants in the nightshade family, including tomatoes and potatoes — the resulting fruit could have been lethal.
Learning to Love G.M.O.s By 2021
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When people talk about the toxins in nightshades, they are often referring to solanine, which is a type of chemical compound called a glycoalkaloid.
The truth about nightshades: four online myths about potatoes, tomatoes and aubergines Lizzie Cernik 2023
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