An alkaloid compound found in certain plants of the Geoffraea genus, used historically in traditional medicine.
From Geoffraea, a genus of tropical American plants named after Étienne François Geoffroy, an 18th-century French naturalist, plus the suffix -in indicating a chemical compound.
Geoffroyin is one of thousands of plant alkaloids named after the botanists who first catalogued them—a naming tradition that essentially turns the periodic table into a monument to scientific explorers.
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