helleborin

[he-leb-uh-rin, hel-uh-bawr-in, -bohr-]

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noun

a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C₂₈H₃₆O₆, obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.

Origin:
1870–75; hellebore + -in²

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helleborin

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