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JAMAICINE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ja*ma"i*cine\, n. [From Jamaica.] (Chem.)
An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of {Geoffroya
inermis}, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam;
-- called also {jamacina}. --Watts.
 

 

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