conessine

English

Etymology

conessi +‎ -ine, after the name of a tree.

Noun

conessine (usually uncountable, plural conessines)

  1. A steroid alkaloid found in a number of plant species of the Apocynaceae family, sometimes used in herbal medicine as a treatment for amoebic dysentery.
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