Bru'ci'na or Bru'cine, n.

n. [Fr. brucine, from N. Lat. brucea, from James Bruce, a Scottish traveler, who died in 1794.] (Chem.) A vegetable alkaloid, extracted from the false Angustura (Brucea anti-dysenterica, of Africa), and the bark of the Strychnos Nux-vomica.