cupreabark (kupreabark)

[ cupreine (kū' (kū'pre-in), n. [ cuprea ( -bark ) + -ine2.] An alkaloid obtained from the double alkaloid homo quinine, found in a variety of cuprea-bark, the product of Remijia pedunculata . cupreous (kū'prē-us), a . [ cupreus , of copper, cuprum , copper: see copper .] 1. Consisting of or containing copper; having the properties of copper.-2. Copper-colored; reddish-brown with a metallic luster. I got a rare me of golden and silver and bright cu preous fishes, which looked like a string of jewels. Cupreous luster. See luster . Thoreau , Walden, p. 338. Cupre ineæ (kū-pre-sin'ē-ē), n. pl . [NL., Cupre us + -in -+- ea .] A suborder of Coni feræ , of which the genus Cupre us is the type, with opposite or ternate, mostly scale-like, and adnate leaves. It includes also the genera Juni . per us , Chamæcyparis , Thuya , Libocedrus , Taxodium , and others of the old world.