(n) an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane, Syn. trench mouth, Vincent's infection
(n) genus of chiefly tropical American vines having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers; supposedly having powers as an antidote, Syn. genus Vincetoxicum
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n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin. [ 1913 Webster ]