monocrotaline

monocrotaline
mono·cro·ta·line -'krōt-əl-.īn, -əl-ən n a poisonous crystalline alkaloid C16H23NO6 found in a leguminous plant of the genus Crotalaria (C. spectabilis) and in other plants of the same genus

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mono·cro·ta·line (mon″o-kroґtə-lēn) a poisonous pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in various species of Crotalaria, the cause of crotalism.

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