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Definition of: heroin
(her′ō·in) noun
Diacetylmorphine, C21H23O5N, a white, odorless, crystalline derivative of morphine with a bitter taste: a powerful, habit–forming narcotic of which the manufacture is prohibited in the United States. [<G]
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