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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline alkaloid. C23H40N2, contained in the East Indian shrub Hymenodictyon excelsum. Also
hymenodyctine .
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a later period, and attributed the bitterness to an alkaloid that he named _hymenodictyonine_.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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