brucine

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Noun
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bruc=ine

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun brucine has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

brucinen. [Cf. F. brucine, fr. James Bruce, a Scottish traveler.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

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