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    BRUCINE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomicaplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting substances

    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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