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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: vomic, -vomic-
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
nux vomica(n) เมล็ดพืชมีพิษ

WordNet (3.0)
nux vomica(n) a medicine made from the seeds of an Asiatic tree; contains strychnine and brucine; formerly used as a stimulant

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Nux vomica

[ NL., fr. L. nux a nut + vomere to vomit. ] The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vomica

‖n. [ L., fr. vomere to throw up, vomit. ] (Med.) (a) An abscess cavity in the lungs. (b) An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vomicine

n. [ From nux vomica. ] (Chem.) See Brucine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vomic nut

[ Cf. F. noix vomique. ] Same as Nux vomica. [ 1913 Webster ]

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