Definition of conine Conine
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What does conine mean?
Wiktionary 
- conine (Noun)
Alternative spelling of coniine.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- conine (n.)
A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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conine
kō′nin, n. an alkaloid forming the poisonous principle of hemlock.—Also Cō′nia, Cō′nicine. [Gr. kōneion, hemlock.]
