Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of leguminous plants. See
Mucuna .
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- noun genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters
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The quantity of saliva may also be increased beyond what is natural, by the catenation of the motions of these glands with other motions, or sensations, as by an extraneous body in the ear; of which I have known an instance; or by the application of stizolobium, siliqua hirsuta, cowhage, to the seat of the parotis, as some writers have affirmed.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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