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Scarlet and black seeds of Indian licorice.

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Usage examples (8)
  • The flying pieces of glass injected the poison as by a myriad of hypodermic needles -- the highly poisonous toxin of abrin, product of the jequirity, which is ordinarily...
  • Had it been the same person who had sent the single jequirity bean?
  • Shirley died of jequirity poisoning, or rather of the alkaloid in the bean.
  • "You remember," she cried, breathlessly, "you said that a jequirity bean was sent to Captain Shirley?"
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