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santolina |
santolina chamaecyparissus |
santon |
santonate |
santonic |
santonin
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| sanvitalia
| sanvitalia procumbens
santonin
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]
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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