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An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous.

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  1. n. An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous.
  2. n. an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide
  3. An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. Ure.
  4. An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is acolorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and anacrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. Ure.
  5. n:100 n. an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide