Santonin

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Santonin \San"to*nin\, n. [L. herba santonica, a kind of plant,
     fr. Santoni a people of Aquitania; cf. Gr. ?: cf. F.
     santonine.] (Chem.)
     A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste,
     extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an
     anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color


     blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a
     yellow glass.
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