Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Parillin

Parillin , noun

[Shortened from sarsaparillin.]

(Chemistry) A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin.