brucine (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *brucine*:
NOUN	substance	brucine	a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica

English > *brucine*: 1 sense > noun 1, substance
Meaning	A bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica.
Broader	alkaloid	Natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants
Broader	plant toxin, phytotoxin	Any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
Substance of	nux vomica	A medicine made from the seeds of an Asiatic tree
Spanish	brucina
Catalan	brucina

HyperDic: brucine