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colombin

colombin is the alternative form of calumbin.

Meaning of calumbin

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

Questions about colombin

What is colombin the alternative form of?
Colombin is the alternative form of calumbin.

Words near colombin in the dictionary

  1. Colombianisms
  2. Colombianness
  3. Colombians
  4. Colombier
  5. Colombier paper
  6. colombin
  7. Colombini
  8. Colombinis
  9. colombium
  10. colombo
  11. Colombo-

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