Brucine
Brucine ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Compare French brucine, from James Bruce, a Scottish traveler.]
(Chemistry) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the <i>Nux vomica</i>. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.