monocrotaline
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Noun
monocrotaline (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in the rattlebox plants (of genus Crotalaria) that is poisonous to livestock and humans.
- 2010, Eric David Morgan, Biosynthesis in Insects[1], page 320:
- Generally the pyrrolizidine alkaloids exist in plants as N-oxides, as shown for monocrotaline and seneciphylline.