Etymology

slaframine

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Today it means: An indolizidine alkaloidal mycotoxin that causes salivation in most animals. Full definition →

Old Norse slafra
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The story

  1. Old Norse · borrowed fromslafra“to slaver, to slobber”
  2. English todayslaframine

From Old Norse slafra (“to slaver, to slobber”).

Words from the same roots

Old Norseslafra all →

slaver

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.