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Definition of Strychnos Ignatia

Strychnos Ignatia
Strychnine Strych"nine, n. [L. strychnos a kind of nightshade, Gr. ?: cf. F. strychnine.] (Chem.) A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiace[ae], as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.

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- and brucine. Ignatia. enotes.com Archived March 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Datta De, B; Bisset, N. G. (1990). "Alkaloids of Strychnos ignatii". Planta...
- community leader plants belonging to the species Strychnos ignatii, and products derived from them, such as Ignatia amara, a homoeopathic remedy This disambiguation...
- species) Strychnos benthami C.B.Clarke Strychnos camptoneura Gilg & Busse Strychnos chromatoxylon Leeuwenb. Strychnos cocculoides Baker Strychnos elaeocarpa...
- taxonomic synonym of the plant genus Strychnos Ignatiana philippinica, Loureiro, a synonym for Strychnos ignatia, a bean tree native to the Philippines...