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Methysticin

Me*thys"ti*cin\, n. (Chem.) A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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