单词 | vegetable alkaloid |
释义 | > as lemmasvegetable alkaloid vegetable alkaloid n. Chemistry an alkaloid of plant origin. ΚΠ 1824 Lancet 13 Nov. 212/4 (table) This [sc. strychnine] is the most active poison of all the vegetable alcaloids. 1888 A. Conan Doyle Study in Scarlet i. i. 6 Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes... I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry. 1925 L. E. H. Whitby Nurses' Handbk. Hygiene vi. 122 Ptomaines... Chemically they are allied to the vegetable alkaloids and are extremely toxic. 2004 K. D. Watson Poisoned Lives (2007) i. 25 With the exception of strychnine and morphine, the vegetable alkaloids did not account for a significant number of criminal poisonings. < as lemmas |
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