Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cotarnine

Cotarnine (k?-t?r"n?n o -n?n) , noun

[French, from narcotine, by transposition of letters.]

(Chemistry) A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.