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Strychnos Bot.|ˈstrɪknɒs|
Also strychnus, pl. strychni.
[mod.L. (Linnæus 1737) use of L. strychnos (Pliny), a. Gr. στρύχνος, a kind of nightshade.]
A genus of plants (N.O. Loganaceæ), including the nux vomica (S. Nux-vomica), the St. Ignatius' bean (S. Ignatia), and other species. Also, a plant or a species of this genus.
[1601Holland Pliny xxvii. viii. II. 280 Some..call this hearbe by another name, Strumus, and others give it the Greeke name Strychnos. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Strychnus or Strychnis, an Herb which makes those mad that eat of it.] 1836J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 1 In the year 1809 I presented to the senior class of the French Institute an account of a series of experiments which had led to the discovery that a whole vegetable family, the bitter strychni, possessed the property of stimulating the spinal marrow to an extraordinary developement of its functions. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 152/1 The genus Strychnos, consisting of about twelve species. |