Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The nux vomica.
- noun The fruit of Cerbera Tanghin, and doubtless of C. Odollam.
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Examples
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Mithridates boils the poison-nut; but Europeans could not, and natives would not, tell me what the Gaboon “dodge” is.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Old Calabar River for instance, Mithridates boils the poison-nut; but Europeans could not, and natives would not, tell me what the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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