brucine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica

WordNet

Bru"cine noun
Etymology
Cf. F. brucine, fr. James Bruce, a Scottish traveler.
Definitions
  1. (Chem.) A poweful 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.

Webster 1913