combining form or stem of VERATRUM, occurring in chemical terms, as veratralbia, -albine (see quots.); veratrate, a salt of veratric acid (1884 Imp. Dict.); veratric a., derived from or contained in species of Veratrum; veratroidea (-oidia), = VERATRINE; veratroidine (see quot.); veratrol, a colorless aromatic oil obtained by distilling veratric acid with excess of baryta.
1876. H. C. Wood, Therap. (ed. 2), 156. Chas. L. Mitchell … finds two alkaloids in the rhizome [of Veratrum album], one of which he denominates jervia, the other *veratralbia.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Veratralbine, an alkaloid obtained from Veratrum album.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 251. *Veratric acid, the acid with which veratria exists combined in Cevadilla.
1866. Chambers’s Encycl., VIII. 395/2. Two special organic acids, to which the names Cevadic and Veratric acids have been given.
1877. Watts, Fownes’ Chem., II. 542. Dimethyl-protocatechuic or Veratric acid … is contained in sabadilla seeds (from Veratrum Sabadilla).
1874. Garrod & Baxter, Mat. Med., 382. This rhizome is stated to contain two alkaloids, Viridia and *Veratroidea;… the latter is insoluble in ether.
1879. H. C. Wood, Therap., 156. Recently Prof. Wormley has arrived at the conclusion that veratroidia is identical with veratria.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Veratroidine, an alkaloid, supposed to be identical with rubijervine, obtained from Veratrum viride.
1868. Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 997. *Veratrol does not appear to unite with alkaline bisulphites.
