Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fetid gumresin, the concrete juice of a Persian species of Ferula, formerly used in amenorrhea, hysteria, etc., or externally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of
Ferula . It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
yellow tobrown bitter gum that derives from plants of the genusFerula .
Etymologies
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Latin sagapenon, sacopenium.
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Examples
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Scinde, musk from Tibet, galbanum from Khorasan; from Afghanistan, asafetida; from Persia, sagapenum; ambergris and civet from Zanzibar, and from Zanzibar came ivory, too.
Messer Marco Polo Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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