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nicotine
has definitions from the fields of biology,chemistry,medicine,immunology,pharmacology
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[ noun ] (biology,chemistry,medicine,immunology,pharmacology) an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide
Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)He looked at her out of himself , she thought , as he did only for an instant at_a_time , the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a_little and his breath came hard through his nicotine choked lungs , the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate_Gallery on a Thursday once . Related terms |
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