n. A bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid, C15H26N2, that is present in the broom Cytisus scoparius and in the seeds of several species of Lupinus. [New Latin Spartium, broom genus (from Latin spartum, a kind of broom, from Greek sparton) + -INE2.] |
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