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(organic chemistry) A bitter white crystalline substance extracted from the calumba root (Jateorhiza palmata)..
Cissampelina, the intensely sweetish-bitter principle found in this body, is very like calumbin in some physical properties; yet we have been wont to associate other therapeutic ideas with pareira, than with calumba.
CALUMBÆ RADIX (Kalumbo, Portuguese). The root of the Cocculus palmatus, one of our most useful stomachics and tonics. It contains a bitter principle, called calumbin.
It also contains bitter terpene-dilactones, such as calumbin and dihydronaphthalene (chasmanthin and palmanin).
Use calumbin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Calumbin means (organic chemistry) A bitter white crystalline substance extracted from the calumba root (Jateorhiza palmata)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Cissampelina, the intensely sweetish-bitter principle found in this body, is very like calumbin in some physical properties; yet we have been wont to associate other therapeutic ideas with pareira, than with calumba.
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