Also buxin(a, buxia. [mod. f. L. bux-us box + -INE4.] A vegetable alkaloid obtained from the box-tree, said to be identical with bebeerine (see BEBEERU).
1836. Penny Cycl., VI. 73/1. Buxina … has generally the appearance of a translucid deep brown-coloured mass.
1863. Watts, Dict. Chem. (1879), I. 699. Buxine has a bitter taste and excites sneezing.
1875. H. Wood, Therap. (1879), 56. Bebeeria, or … buxia, is whitish, amorphous, inodorous.
