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wabain

wabain is the obsolete form of ouabain.

Meaning of ouabain

Noun

ouabain (countable and uncountable, plural ouabains)

  1. A poisonous cardiac glycoside, g-strophanthin, found in the seeds of certain lianas.
    • In moderate dosage ouabain is used today to treat emergency heart failure; in excessive doses it makes the heart go crazy, pumping wildly until it collapses.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 113

Questions about wabain

What is wabain the obsolete form of?
Wabain is the obsolete form of ouabain.

Words near wabain in the dictionary

  1. Waasi
  2. waaw
  3. waaws
  4. waaz
  5. waazes
  6. wabain
  7. Wabamun
  8. Waban
  9. Wabana
  10. Wabanaki
  11. Wabanaki Confederacy

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