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Definition of: parquine
(pär′kēn) noun Chem.
A yellowish, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C21H39O8N, extracted from the bark of certain solanaceous plants, especially Cestrum parqui: similar in action to strychnine and atropine. [<NL parqui, name of a species + -INE2]
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