Săr'ra-sĭn or Săr'ra-sine, n.
n. [Fr. sarrasine, N. Lat. aristolochia sarracenica.]
Sense 1. (Bot.) A plant, a kind of birthwort; — applied also in England to buckwheat. Simmonds.
Sense 2. [Fr. sarrasine, L. Lat. saracina, saracinesca, It. saracinesca, seracinesca. See SARACEN.] (Fort.) A portcullis or herse. [Written also sarasin.]