nicotine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nicotine	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for nicotine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nicotine n an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nicotine \Nic"o*tine\ (? [or] ?), n. [F. nicotine. See {Nicotian}.] (Chem.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. --Ure.