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helleborin
[ he-leb-uh-rin, hel-uh-bawr-in, -bohr- ]
noun
- a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of helleborin1
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Example Sentences
By boiling with zinc chloride, helleborin splits up into sugar and a resin—helleboresin.
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