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Alkaloidal   Listen
adjective
Alkaloidal, Alkaloid  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
2.
Of or pertaining to alkaloids.





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"Alkaloidal" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed. Mr. ALKALOID, the photographer, had met Mr. MUSH. Mr. ALKALOID had come from Ryde to London to get his hair singed. The two accidentally met Mr. ROPES as he was dashing wildly down the street towards his own shop. In one minute all was explained. Mr. ALKALOID had fetched his photographic apparatus, and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 • Various
... cannabis, coca cultivation in the Amazon region has diminished in recent years because of its low alkaloid content, mostly for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian and Colombian cocaine headed ...
— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... opium; but I found that I was only respited, not redeemed. Two months after I had entered upon my duties, and found myself quietly among my books, the bond was renewed. After two months, in which I passed from laudanum to crude opium, I finally settled on the alkaloid morphia, as being the most powerful of all the preparations of opium. I began with half a grain twice a day, and for the six months ending the last day of September of the just expired year, my daily quantum was ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh. "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes—it approaches to cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness. He appears to have a passion ...
— A Study In Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle


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