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Alkaloidal   Listen
adjective
Alkaloidal, Alkaloid  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
2.
Of or pertaining to alkaloids.





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... the best-known poisons in ancient times; indeed it was so extensively used by professional poisoners in Rome during the Empire that a law was passed making its cultivation a capital offence. Aconite root contains about 0.4 per cent. of alkaloid and one-fifteenth of a grain of the alkaloid is a lethal dose. The drug has little effect upon the consciousness, but produces slowing, irregularity, and finally arrest of ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray


Words linked to "Alkaloidal" :   alkaloid


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