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tro⋅pine

  [troh-peen, -pin]
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–noun Chemistry.
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C8H15NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
Origin:
1880–85; aph. var. of atropine
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tro·pine   (trō'pēn', -pĭn)   
n.  A white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C8H15NO, obtained chiefly by hydrolysis of atropine.

[From atropine.]
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Main Entry: tro·pine
Pronunciation: 'trO-"pEn
Function: noun
: a poisonous hygroscopic crystalline heterocyclic amino alcoholC8H15NO derived from tropane and obtained by hydrolysis of atropine and other solanaceous alkaloids or by synthesis
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tropine tro·pine (trō'pēn', -pĭn) or tro·pin (-pĭn)
n.
A white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid obtained chiefly by hydrolysis of atropine.

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