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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington;
[syn: columbo, American columbo, deer's-ear, deer's-ears, pyramid plant, American gentian]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Calumba \Ca*lum"ba\, n. [from kalumb, its native name in Mozambique.] (Med.) The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic. [Written also colombo, columbo, and calombo.] [1913 Webster] American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

American gentian n 1: any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington [syn: columbo, American columbo, deer's-ear, deer's-ears, pyramid plant, American gentian]