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nicotine

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Word definitions for nicotine in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poisonous alkaloid found in tobacco leaves, 1819, from French nicotine , earlier nicotiane , from Modern Latin Nicotiana , formal botanical name for the tobacco plant, named for Jean Nicot (c.1530-1600), French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nicotine \Nic"o*tine\ (? or ?), n. [F. nicotine. See Nicotian .] (Chem.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco ( C10H14N2 ). It occurs in tobacco plants ( Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rusticum ) to the extent of 2 to 8%, in combination ...

Usage examples of nicotine.

Consequently, an addictive personality would mean that I wanted to become addicted, not just to nicotine, but to heroin and any other addictive substance.

Get it clearly into your mind: one ingenuity of the nicotine trap is that, like all drug addiction, it is designed to keep you hooked, and that the more it adversely affects your health and purse, the more securely you appear to be hooked.

The true reason was my addiction to nicotine, which caused me to have the stress in the first place.

I would explain to both of them the terrible power that nicotine addiction holds over its victims.

The nature of nicotine addiction is that it leaves you feeling permanently hungry and therefore more liable to become overweight.

Nicotine addiction currently claims over four million victims every year.

The fear that nicotine addiction engenders can cause otherwise pleasant and compassionate people to act like barbarians.

Although nicotine is the most powerful addictive drug known to mankind, it only relates to the speed in which it traps its victims.

After all, we all know how addictive nicotine is and what massive willpower it takes to stop.

This is the reason why nicotine patches are not addictive while cigarettes, which contain the same quantity of nicotine, are.

He watched Orval drag on the last of his cigarette close to his fingers, their joints gnarled and yellow from nicotine.

Drosera, and quickly cause strong inflection, it seems probable that strychnine, nicotine, digitaline, and hydrocyanic acid, excite inflection by acting on elements in no way analogous to the nervecells of animals.

Many of the symptoms associated with nicotine were the same as those caused by muscarine: salivation, sweating, abdominal pain, and lacrimation-the very same symptoms that had appeared in Patty Owen and Henry Noble.

She was behind me, drinking white wine, gossiping with Miles, the photo editor, a gaunt, stubble-chinned Englishman whose ringers were stained with nicotine.

I steeled myself for the long flight to come, anticipating the classic symptoms of nicotine withdrawal plus jet-lag: excitability, hyperirritability, racing thoughts, etc.