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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Santonin \San"to*nin\, n. [L. herba santonica, a kind of plant, fr. Santoni a people of Aquitania; cf. Gr. [?]: cf. F. santonine.] (Chem.) 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. | |
