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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colorless, inodorous solid alkaloid, intensely bitter, obtained from Gelsemium sempervirens, and used in medicine in the treatment of certain inflammatory affections.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.

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  • noun organic chemistry An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine, Gelsemium sempervirens.

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