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Brucine
Bru′cine
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
brucine
, fr. James Bruce
, a Scottish traveler.] (Chem.)
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
.