Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sabadilla

Sabadilla (sab`ȧ*dil"lȧ) , noun

[Sp. cebadilla.]

(Botany) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.