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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia;
[syn: coffee senna, mogdad coffee, styptic weed, stinking weed, Senna occidentalis, Cassia occidentalis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to contract.] Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also stiptic.] [1913 Webster] Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

styptic weed n 1: very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia [syn: coffee senna, mogdad coffee, styptic weed, stinking weed, Senna occidentalis, Cassia occidentalis]