Definition of "vicine" []

• An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance. (noun)

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• "When they are exposed to two unusual amino-acid relatives vicine and convicine in the beans and in the flower pollen, their bodies metabolize these chemicals to forms that damage their red blood cells and cause serious, sometimes fatal anemia."
• "Gonorrhæa, causing it to cease and stay totally, and correcting the distemper, and the evill ulcerous disposition of the seed vessels, & the vicine parts."