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buxine|ˈbʌksaɪn| Also buxin(a, buxia. [mod. f. L. bux-us box + -ine4.] A vegetable alkaloid obtained from the box-tree, said to be identical with bebeerine (see bebeeru).
1836Penny Cycl. VI. 73/1 Buxina..has generally the appearance of a translucid deep brown-coloured mass. 1863Watts Dict. Chem. (1879) I. 699 Buxine has a bitter taste and excites sneezing. 1875H. Wood Therap. (1879) 56 Bebeeria, or..buxia, is whitish, amorphous, inodorous. |