corrovaline
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Noun[edit]
corrovaline (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corrovaline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)