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santonin

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Noun
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san=to=nin
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CIDE DICTIONARY
santonin, n. [L. herba santonica, a kind of plant, fr. Santoni a people of Aquitania; cf. Gr. : cf. F. santonine.].
     A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.  [1913 Webster]
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
santonin, n. a toxic drug extracted from santonica and other plants of the genus Artemisia, used as an anthelmintic.

Etymology
SANTONICA + -IN
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