See Also: erythrophleine(medicine)

paucity (iou) and erythrophleine (medicine)


paucity (iou)



paucity noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French paucite or Latin paucitas, from pauci-, paucus few: see -ITY.]
Smallness of number or quantity; fewness, scantiness.
N. Mandela Electing such representatives to Parliament is made ridiculous by their paucity of numbers. M. Sawyer The place was spectacular only in the paucity of its ambitions.

erythrophleine (medicine)


erythrophleine
<chemistry> A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).

Source: Websters Dictionary