A poisonous alkaloid compound found in delphinium and larkspur plants.
From delphinium + -in (chemical suffix). Identified and named in the 19th century when plant alkaloids were first systematically studied.
Delphinin was one of the first plant poisons chemists could identify and measure, making delphinium historically important to the development of toxicology as a science.
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