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Savin vs Sarin - What's the difference?

savin | sarin |

As nouns the difference between savin and sarin

is that savin is the evergreen shrub species: Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil while sarin is the neurotoxin O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.

savin

English

(wikipedia savin) (Juniperus sabina) (Juniperus virginiana)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The evergreen shrub , endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
  • The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
    • th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine , and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].
  • The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana .

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    sarin

    English

    Noun

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  • The neurotoxin O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.

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