An alternative form or variant name for brucin, an alkaloid compound from brucia plants.
Latin feminine form of brucin, used in older chemical nomenclature when gender agreement was strictly maintained in scientific names.
The switch from 'brucina' to 'brucin' shows how chemistry simplified its language—older scientists loved complicated Latin forms, but modern chemists prefer short, snappy names.
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