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Webster 1913 Edition
Nux vomica
Nuxˊ vom′i-ca
.[NL., fr. L.
nux
a nut + vomere
to vomit.] The seed of
Strychnos Nuxvomica
, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.