kombén.
/ˈkɒmbiː/ The juice obtained from the seeds of Strophanthus kombe, a Central African climbing plant of the family Apocynaceæ, which is one of the sources of the drug strophanthin.
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kombé1859
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1859 J. Kirk Zambesi Jrnl. & Lett. (1965) I. 171 I take a walk in the neighbourhood, find the plant used to poison the arrows. It is an arborescent twiner, getting quite to the top of the trees. The juice of the fruit is used... They call it Kombe.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 608/1 The inée or onaye poison of the Gaboon, the kombé poison of equatorial North Africa,..are..derived from members of this genus.
1888 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VI. 663/1 Strophanthus (Kombé, Arrow Poison).
1934 G. E. Trease et al. Text-bk. Pharmacognosy xx. 512 One of these [species of Strophanthus], known to the natives of the Shiré River as kombi, was noted by Livingstone in 1861... In 1885 Fraser isolated strophanthin and recommended the use of the seeds in medicine.
1952 G. E. Trease et al. Text-bk. Pharmacognosy (ed. 6) xviii. 479 The glycosides of kombé contain cymarose.
1967 Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 25) 541/2 Strophanthin-K (B.P.C. 1954). Strophanthin; Kombé Strophanthin.
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