coniine


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co·ni·ine

 (kō′nē-ēn′) also co·nine (-nēn′)
n.
A poisonous colorless liquid alkaloid, C8H17N, found in the poison hemlock.

[Late Latin cōnium, conium; see conium + -ine.]
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coniine

(ˈkəʊnɪˌiːn; -nɪɪn; -niːn) ,

conin

or

conine

n
(Biochemistry) Also called: cicutine or conicine a colourless poisonous soluble liquid alkaloid found in hemlock; 2-propylpiperidine. Formula: C5H10NC3H7
[C19: from conium + ine2]
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co•ni•ine

(ˈkoʊ niˌin, -ɪn, -nin)

also co•nin

(-nɪn)

co•nine

(-nin, -nɪn)

n.
a volatile alkaloid, C8H17N, that is the active principle of the poison hemlock.
[1825–35; coni (um) + -ine2]
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Coniine ([C.sub.8][H.sub.17]N) is a poisonous chemical compound and
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Chemical constituents: Main alkaloid is coniine and a volatile oil.
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The poison hemlock plant (Conium maculatum) contains several toxic piperidine alkaloids, primarily coniine, and has been used since antiquity as an intentional poison--most notably by the Athenians to execute Socrates.
A herbaceous plant with leaves typical of the carrot family, hemlock, shown in Figure 21-12, contains the toxin coniine. It is not the same as the woody hemlock tree.
Morphine found in opium, atropine in henbane, scopolamine in mandrake, and coniine in hemlock can all induce sleep.
The poison is a volatile alkaloid, coniine, found in the foliage all season and in the seeds in late summer.