abrin

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin Abrus (“genus of the species source of the bean”) +‎ -in

Pronunciation

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Noun

abrin (uncountable)

  1. A toxin, akin to ricin, found in jequirity beans (Abrus precatorius). [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]

References

  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrin”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

Anagrams

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