n :  a bitter white crystallizable substance with purgative qualities obtained from the purging flax
, n :  the feebly staining portion of the reticulum of the nucleus of a resting cell in which chromatin granules appear to be embedded .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  le·o·nine  Lin·nae·an 
 
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