Meanings
nounechidnine (uncountable)
- uncountablechemistryA nitrogenous base contained in this fluid, believed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.
Prince Lucien Bonaparte has shown that the poison of the Viper consists essentially of a principle to which he has given the name echidnine or viperine
1861, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Elements of Medical Zoology
Origin
From Greek ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “snake, viper”) + -ine.
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