Cocculus indicus is poisonous to all animals, and to most vegetables.
A small portion of the cocculus indicus imported is used by poachers, and a still smaller quantity to destroy vermin, the remaining, and by far the greater part, being employed to adulterate beer and even wine.
The deleterious effect of Cocculus Indicus (the fruit of the memispermum cocculus) is owing to a peculiar bitter principle contained in it; which, when swallowed in minute quantities, intoxicates and acts as poison.
The quantities of coculus indicus berries, as well as of black extract, imported into this country for adulterating malt liquors, are enormous.
But with regard to the vegetable materials deleterious to health, it is extremely difficult, in any instance, to detect them by chemical agencies; and in most cases it is quite impossible, as in that of cocculus indicus in beer.
I propose to call them Passer domesticus indicus maderaspatensis connemara hotelwalla--a name which I am sure will be received with acclamation both by sparrows and human beings.
Note: The Indian, or white, and the Javan rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros Indicus and R.
Pigs of the Sus indicus type are best known to Englishmen under the form of the Chinese breed.
Seeing how different the Chinese pigs, belonging to the Sus indicus type, are in their osteological characters and in external appearance from the pigs of the S.
The quantities of cocculus-indicus berries, as well as of black extract, brought into this country for adulterating malt liquors, are enormous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indicus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
