TANGHIN
\tˈaŋhɪn], \tˈaŋhɪn], \t_ˈa_ŋ_h_ɪ_n]\
Definitions of TANGHIN
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A poisonous extract from the seeds of Tanghinia venenifera, a tree of Madagascar; it is a cardiac poison, like strophanthus, employed formerly as an ordeal poison.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
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A tree, native of Madagascar, the kernel of the fruit of which yields a deadly poison, and that was formerly used there in trial by ordeal.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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tang'gin, n. a vegetable poison of Madagascar, acting upon the heart like digitalis--formerly used for the judicial ordeal.
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
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Exceedingly poisonous seed of Cerbera Tanghin, a tree of Madagascar.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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