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Nectandra Puchury
Pichurim bean Pich"u*rim bean` (Bot.) The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.
Nectandra Rodioei
Bebeeru Be*bee"ru, n. [Written also bibiru.] [Native name.] (Bot.) A tropical South American tree (Nectandra Rodi[oe]i), the bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of which is known as green heart.
Nectandra Rodioei
Bebeerine Be*bee"rine, or Bebirine Be*bi"rine (b[-e]*b[=e]"r[i^]n or -r[=e]n), n. (Chem.) An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodi[oe]i). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

Meaning of Nectan from wikipedia

- Saint Nectan, sometimes styled Saint Nectan of Hartland, was a 5th-century holy man who lived in Stoke, Hartland, in the nowadays English, and at the...
- 7192°W / 50.6648; -4.7192 Saint Nectan's Glen (Cornish: Glynn Nathan, meaning deep wooded valley of Nathan/Nectan) is an area of woodland in Trethevy...
- Nechtan, Nectan or Neithon may refer to: Nechtan Morbet (fl. 5th or 6th century), king of the Picts Nechtan nepos Uerb (fl. 7th century), king of the Picts...
- The Church of St Nectan is the parish church of Hartland, Devon, England. Sometimes referred to as the "Cathedral of North Devon", it is located in the...
- Saint Nectan's Kieve (Cornish: Cuva Nathan, meaning Nathan's tub) in Saint Nectan's Glen, near Tintagel in Cornwall, Great Britain, is a plunge pool or...
- century but was swept away in 1887. The high tower of the Church of Saint Nectan in Stoke remains a significant landmark for ships in the Bristol Channel...
- that St. Nectan never existed as a historical person, but was instead a Christianized form of the god Nechtan. St Nectan's Kieve in St Nectan's Glen near...
- contentious in the ninth century. Also recorded in different sources as Necthon, Nectan and Naitan. Clancy 2004, p. 127. The identifications broadly follow Clancy...
- Nicholas Orme, Adwen was identified in the original tradition as a brother of Nectan of Hartland, but subsequently misclassified by Charles Henderson in the...
- Tudwen, Callwen, Gwenfyl, Gwennan and Mwynwen. Listed in the Life of Saint Nectan are, by his wife, Gwladys: Adwen, Canauc (Cynog), Cleder (Clether), Dilic...