A chemical compound or alkaloid, possibly related to Coriaria plants or their toxic properties.
Likely formed from 'Coriaria' plus the chemical suffix '-in,' used by chemists to name alkaloid compounds isolated from plants.
Like many plant chemical names ending in '-in,' coriin represents a moment when a scientist looked at a poisonous plant and asked 'what exactly is making this deadly?'—and gave it a name!
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