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Definition of: brucine
(br
′sēn, -sin) noun Chem.
A bitter poisonous crystalline alkaloid, C23H26O4N24H2O, found, with strychnine, in the seed and bark of the nux vomica, and in other species of the same genus (Strychnos). Also bru′cin (-sin), [after J. Bruce, 1730–94, Scottish explorer in Africa]
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