strychnine
IPA: strˈɪknaɪn
noun
- (organic chemistry) A very toxic, colourless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide
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Examples of "strychnine" in Sentences
- Consider adding some strychnine.
- A cigarette laced with strychnine.
- But most kinds also contain strychnine.
- See e.g. the quote in Strychnine poisoning.
- There is no specific antidote for strychnine.
- Its seeds are rich in strychnine and brucine.
- Instead someone had replaced it with strychnine.
- The source of the strychnine was never identified.
- The powder made from the Strychnine seeds were used to alleviate indigestion.
- This is an indirect effect of the drug, not strychnine or any other adulterant.
- November 19th, 2008 strychnine is a grand tonic, kemp, to take to take the flabbiness out of a man!
- For no particular reason I would like to remark that "strychnine" has the same number of syllables as "teamwork."
- During the 1950's the development was rapid and many challenging molecules such as strychnine and morphine were made synthetically.
- Predators, including the striped hyena, have been persecuted throughout the ecoregion by the widespread use of poisons such as strychnine because they kill livestock.
- We have with great success made a practice of not leaving arsenic and strychnine, and typhoid and tuberculosis germs lying around for our children to be destroyed by.
- These would establish whether Mr Williams was poisoned using a deadly toxin such as strychnine, cyanide or thallium, administered in such a way as to leave no mark visible to the naked eye.
- When a small quantity of strychnine kills a man, the strychnine is the inciting power; the nature of his nervo-muscular system, apt to be thrown into spasms by that drug, and all the organs of his body dependent on that system, are the collocation.
- The minute any human or human institution arrogates to itself a singular knowledge of God, there comes into that knowledge a kind of strychnine pride, and it is as if the most animated and vital creature were instantaneously transformed into a corpse.
- Small-pox is a nuisance; strychnine is a nuisance; mad dogs are a nuisance; slavery is a nuisance; slaveholders are a nuisance, and so are slave-breeders; it is our business, nay, it is our imperative duty, to abate nuisances; we propose, therefore, with the exception of strychnine, which is the least of all these nuisances, to exterminate this catalogue from beginning to end.