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Webster 1913 Edition

Asarabacca

‖

Asˊa-ra-bac′ca

,

Noun.

[L.

asarum

+

bacca

a berry. See

.]

(Bot.)

An acrid herbaceous plant (

Asarum Europæum

), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.