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Webster 1913 Edition

(săbˊȧ-dĭl′lȧ)

Noun.

[Sp.

cebadilla

(Bot.)

A Mexican liliaceous plant (

Schoenocaulon officinale

); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid

veratrine

. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.