sabadilla
(sæbəˈdɪlə)
[a. Sp. cebadilla, dim. of cebada barley.]
= cevadilla; a preparation of this for medicinal or agricultural use. Also attrib.
| 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 208 Sabadilla seed, Indian Caustic Barley, very useful in Medicine. 1836 J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 71 Boil the seeds of the sabadilla with alcohol. 1876 Duhring Dis. Skin 596 Powdered sabadilla..may be sprinkled throughout the hair with good result. 1890 Hughes & Dake Cycl. Drug Pathogenesy III. 759 We have thought it better to omit the symptoms belonging to them, lest they should prove as worthless as those..which were observed in a boy suffering from tape-worm before he took Sabadilla 30, and which (naturally) disappeared after 46 ells of the worm had been passed. 1907 Brit. Pharmaceutical Codex 241 Sabadilla consists of the dried ripe seeds of Schoenocaulon officinale,..a tall herbaceous plant growing on the low mountain slopes in Mexico, Guatemala, and Venezuela. 1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 4 Feb. 4/1 A powerful new insecticide has been developed from a long-known plant... The new bug killer is known as sabadilla. 1977 Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 27) 796/2 Sabadilla was formerly used as a parasiticide, especially for pediculosis capitis, in the form of ointment..or vinegar. |
Hence sabaˈdillia, sabaˈdilline, Chem., an alkaloid obtained from sabadilla seeds.
| 1836 J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 70 M. Couerbe..has severally named them [i.e. the principles in sabadilla] sabadilline, veratrin [etc.]. 1857 Miller Elem. Chem. (1892) III. 503 Three other poisonous bases, sabadillia, colchinia, and jervia, are found, along with veratria, in the Veratrum album. 1887 A. M. Brown Anim. Alkaloids 29 Anemonine, peltierine, sabadilline. |