chinidine

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chinidine - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quinidine \Quin"i*dine\, n. (Chem.)
     An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in
     certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a
     bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used
     somewhat as a febrifuge. [Written also chinidine.]
     [1913 Webster]