Word Meanings - BRUCINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• Foundationless
  Having no foundation.
• Species
  Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Different
  Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
• Founder
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• Strychnine
  A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystallin
• Alkaloid
  Alt. of Alkaloidal
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Differentiae
  of Differentia
• Foundered
  of Founder
• Strychnos
  A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Loganiaceae. See Nux vomica.
• Alkaloidal
  Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• Differentia
  The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.

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