Tropine
noun, Chemistry.
1.
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
noun
1.
a white crystalline poisonous hygroscopic alkaloid obtained by heating atropine or hyoscyamine with barium hydroxide. Formula: C8H15NO
tropine tro·pine (trō’pēn’, -pĭn) or tro·pin (-pĭn)
n.
A white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid obtained chiefly by hydrolysis of atropine.
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