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Definition of: picrotoxin
(pik′rə·tok′sin) noun Chem.
A bitter, odorless, crystalline compound, C30H34O13, contained in and forming the poisonous principle of the seeds of the flshberry: it resembles strychnine in action.
—pic′ro·tox′ic adjective
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