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COLCHINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does colchine mean?
• COLCHINE (noun)
The noun COLCHINE has 1 sense:
1. an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout
Familiarity information: COLCHINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("colchine" is a kind of...):
analgesic; anodyne; pain pill; painkiller (a medicine used to relieve pain)
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