- Boxing injury, ... ear - Brassica - Small white vegetable for pickiling - Small white vegetable for pickling - White vegetable - An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of
which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a
vegetable. - The edible head or "curd" of a cauliflower plant.
- A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison
hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance,
C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.
- Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as
the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among
themselves in composition and properties. - A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the
essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline
substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.
- A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted
from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or
yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also
colchicia.
- A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the
decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the
action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is
also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the
spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom.
Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.