Conine - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition conine

Definition :

A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock Conium maculatum and extracted as a colorless oil C8H17N of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves Called also coniine coneine conia etc See Conium 2