Chem. [f. prec. + -INE; cf. F. curarine.] A bitter poisonous alkaloid, C10 H15 N, obtained from curare.
1863–72. Watts, Dict. Chem., II. 186. The physiological action of curarine appears to be the same as that of curara.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 431.
