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‖ Cuˈsparia Bot.
[f. native name Cuspare.]
A genus of trees, now usually called Galipea, species of which yield the Angustura or Cusparia bark used as a tonic; also = cusparin.
1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. I. vi. 213 note, The Cuspare of Angostura, known in America under the name of Orinoco bark. 1876W. Begbie Bk. Med. Inform. App. 251 Cusparia, a useful tonic in convalescence from diarrhœa and dysentery.
Hence ˈcusparin (Chem.), a crystalline substance obtained from Angustura bark.
1824R. Phillips tr. Pharm. Lond. (1836) 191 It is stated by Saladin that the virtue of Cusparia resides in a peculiar neutral substance which he calls Cusparin. 1879Watts Dict. Chem. VIII. 87. |