[Named after Brayer, a foreign physician.] A genus of Rosaceous trees, the only known species of which (B. anthelmintica) is a native of Abyssinia. b. A medicinal preparation of the flowers and tops of this tree, called also Cusso, valued as an anthelmintic. Hence also Brayerin, a bitter acrid resin found in Cusso.
1875. H. Wood, Therap. (1879), 601. Brayera is a most efficient remedy against the tapeworm.