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hyoscyamines

hyoscyamines is the plural of hyoscyamine.

Meaning of hyoscyamine

Noun

hyoscyamine (uncountable)

  1. A poisonous alkaloid present in henbane that is the stereoisomer of atropine, with similar properties to hyoscine, and used medicinally to treat abdominal pain and similar conditions.
    • If only Creake was going to poison his wife with hyoscyamine and bury her, instead of blowing her up with a dynamite cartridge and claiming that it came in among the coal.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

Questions about hyoscyamines

What is hyoscyamines the plural of?
Hyoscyamines is the plural of hyoscyamine.

Words near hyoscyamines in the dictionary

  1. hyoscine
  2. hyoscines
  3. hyoscyami
  4. hyoscyamin
  5. hyoscyamine
  6. hyoscyamines
  7. hyoscyamus
  8. hyoscyamuses
  9. hyoshigi
  10. hyosternal
  11. hyosternum

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