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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sabadilla \Sab`a*dil"la\ (s[acr]b`[adot]*d[icr]l"l[adot]), n. [Sp. cebadilla.] (Bot.) A Mexican liliaceous plant ({Sch[d2]nocaulon officinale}); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. | |
