Brucine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A poisonous white crystalline alkaloid, C23H26N2O4, derived from the seeds of nux vomica and closely related plants and used to denature alcohol.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An alkaloid, related to strychnine, found in nux vomica.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A vegetable alkaloid (C2H26N2O4), discovered in what was thought to be the bark of the Brucea antidysenterica, but which was that of Strychnos Nux-vomica.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alkaloid    plant toxin    phytotoxin   
    Variant
    brucia    brucina    nux vomica   
     
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