cotarnine
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French cotarnine, from narcotine, by anagramming.
Noun
editcotarnine (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A white crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained from decomposition of narcotine.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cotarnine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)