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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sabadilla  \Sab`a*dil"la\  (s[a^]b`[.a]*d[i^]l"l[.a]),  n.  [Sp. 
  cebadilla.]  (Bot.) 
  A  Mexican  liliaceous  plant  ({Sch[oe]nocaulon  officinale}); 
  also  its  seeds,  which  contain  the  alkaloid  veratrine.  It  was 
  formerly  used  in  medicine  as  an  emetic  and  purgative. 

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