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Definition of Erythroxylon
1. Noun. A large genus of South American shrubs and small trees of the family Erythroxylaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Member holonyms: Coca, Coca Plant, Erythroxylon Coca, Erythroxylon Truxiuense
Definition of Erythroxylon
1. n. A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.
Medical Definition of Erythroxylon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Erythroxylon
Literary usage of Erythroxylon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1892)
"Are the officinal menstrua used in the fluid extracts of erythroxylon and cinchona
such, that while thoroughly exhausting the drugs of their desirable ..."
2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"Of the three vascular bundles passing out into the leaf in erythroxylon, ...
In some of the species of erythroxylon the ground-tissue of the petiole ..."
3. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"The leaves of the coca shrub (erythroxylon Coca Lam., ... Coca (erythroxylon Coco,).
Leaf, natural size. (MOELLER.) FIG. 421. Coca. Leaf in cross section, ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1847)
"On Coca (erythroxylon Coca, Lam.) By Dr JJ VON TSCHUDI. The coca (erythroxylon
coca, Lam.) is a shrub about six feet in height, with bright green leaves and ..."
5. Essentials of materia medica, therapeutics, and prescription writing by Henry Morris (1893)
"Belladonna, stramonium, hyoscyamus, duboisia, erythroxylon, and their alkaloids,
and antipyrine. What is belladonna ? BELLADONNA. ..."
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