strychnine

From French strychnine, from Greek στρύχνος (strýchnos, “sleepy nightshade”) (or directly from Ancient Greek στρύχνον (strúkhnon)) +‎ -ine.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɪk.niːn/, /ˈstrɪknɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstrɪkˌnaɪn/, /ˈstrɪkˌnin/

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strychnine (usually uncountable, plural strychnines)

1. (organic chemistry) A very toxic, colorless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide.
   • 1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:

     Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well—I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and ​the whole family died in fearful agonies.

   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles:

     […] strychnine is a fairly rapid drug in its action. The symptoms appear from one to two hours after it has been swallowed.

Borrowed from French strychnine.

• IPA^(key): /ˌstrɪxˈni.nə/, /ˌstrixˈni.nə/

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• Hyphenation: strych‧ni‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

strychnine f or n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. strychnine

• strychninevergiftiging

• IPA^(key): /stʁik.nin/

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strychnine f (plural strychnines)

1. strychnine

• → Dutch: strychnine
• → English: strychnine
• → Turkish: striknin

• “strychnine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012