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calumbin

calumbin noun: a bitter white crystalline substance extracted from the calumba root (Jateorhiza palmata).

Noun

calumbin (uncountable)

  1. A bitter white crystalline substance extracted from the calumba root (Jateorhiza palmata).
    • Cissampelina, the intensely sweetish-bitter principle found in this body, is very like calumbin in some physical properties; yet we have been wont to associate other therapeutic ideas with pareira, than with calumba.1843, Samuel Thomson, “On the Vegetable Resources of the Edinburgh Pharmacopœia”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 60, page 167
    • CALUMBÆ RADIX (Kalumbo, Portuguese). The root of the Cocculus palmatus, one of our most useful stomachics and tonics. It contains a bitter principle, called calumbin.1844, Richard Dennis Hoblyn, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences

Origin of calumbin

From calumba + -in.

Questions about calumbin

What does calumbin mean?
Calumbin means a bitter white crystalline substance extracted from the calumba root (Jateorhiza palmata).
What part of speech is calumbin?
Calumbin is a noun.

Words near calumbin in the dictionary

  1. Caluctogan
  2. Calugusan
  3. Calulu
  4. Calum
  5. calumba
  6. calumbin
  7. calumenin
  8. calumet
  9. Calumet County
  10. calumetite
  11. calumets

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