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BRUCINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("brucine" is a kind of...):
alkaloid (natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants)
phytotoxin; plant toxin (any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin)
Holonyms ("brucine" is a substance of...):
nux vomica (a medicine made from the seeds of an Asiatic tree; contains strychnine and brucine; formerly used as a stimulant)
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