Strychnos

·noun A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Loganiaceae. ·see Nux vomica.

← Strychnine × Stryphnic →

strychnos
strychnos, i, m., = στρύχνος, a kind of nightshade , Plin. 27, 8, 44, § 68.—Called also trychnos ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.