Usually means: Bitter compound extracted from colocynth.
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  1. colocynthin: Wordnik
  2. colocynthin: Wiktionary
  3. Colocynthin: Dictionary.com
  4. Colocynthin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. colocynthin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Colocynthin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. colocynthin: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Colocynthin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. colocynthin: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (colocynthin)

noun:  (organic chemistry) The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter yellow crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

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