monocrotaline

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monocrotaline (uncountable)

  1. (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, page 320:
      Generally the pyrrolizidine alkaloids exist in plants as N-oxides, as shown for monocrotaline and seneciphylline.

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