A bitter compound or principle extracted from abrotanum plants, historically used medicinally.
From 'abrotanum' + the chemical suffix '-in,' used to name compounds extracted from plants or created synthetically.
Like many plant extracts with '-in' suffixes, 'abrotin' represents pre-modern medicine's approach of boiling herbs and tasting the bitter results to find healing properties.
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