Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant (Schoenocaulon officinale) found from Mexico to Peru, having long spikelike racemes of small flowers, long narrow leaves, and seeds that contain veratridine and other alkaloids.
- noun A preparation of the seeds of this plant, used as an insecticide and in some medicinal preparations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cevadilla , and caustic barley (under barley).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (
Schœnocaulon officinale ); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Mexican andCentral American plant of thelily family (Schoenocaulon officinale). - noun The
seeds of this plant, used inmedicine andinsecticides .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Spanish cebadilla, diminutive of cebada, barley, from Latin cibātus, from past participle of cibāre, to feed, from cibus, food.]
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Examples
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Homeopathic remedies to consider include sabadilla 6th to the 30th potency, which is indicated for spasmodic sneezing with a running nose and redness of the eyes.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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For instance, there is the veratrine that may be derived from the sabadilla seeds which grow in the West Indies and Mexico.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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The sabadilla is dextro-rotary; the death camas is levo-rotary.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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