NOUN | substance | brucine | a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica |
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Meaning | A bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica. | |
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Broader | alkaloid | Natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants |
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 |
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