ephedrine
(noun) white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ephedrine (countable and uncountable, plural ephedrines)
(uncountable) An alkaloid, found in some species of Ephedra shrubs (or prepared synthetically).
(countable) A medication whose active ingredient is ephedrine, used as a sympathomimetic drug.
Source: Wiktionary
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
