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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 alsogelsemia .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry An
alkaloid obtained from the yellowjasmine , Gelsemium sempervirens.
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