Noun: strychnine
| Singular | strychnine |
| Plural | strychnines |
Sample Sentences
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Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well—I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies. [1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:]
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[…] strychnine is a fairly rapid drug in its action. The symptoms appear from one to two hours after it has been swallowed. [1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles:]
Nouns inflected like strychnine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French strychnine, from Greek στρύχνος (strýchnos, “sleepy nightshade”) (or directly from Ancient Greek στρύχνον (strúkhnon)) + -ine. See: French Nouns '
strychnine', Greek Nouns '
στρύχνος', Ancient Greek Nouns '
στρύχνον'.