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Bitter crystalline compound
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aloin
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Aloin , also known as barbaloin , is a bitter, yellow-brown colored compound noted in the exudate of at least 68 Aloe species at levels from 0.1 to 6.6% of leaf dry weight (making between 3% and 35% of the total exudate) (Groom & Reynolds, 1987), and in ...
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n. (context pharmaceutical drug English) A glycoside derivative of anthracene, found in aloe, that is used as a laxative.
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For the first time in years, Simone thought of Aloin Boyer, the handsome, virile husband she had lost to a German howitzer.