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Webster 1913 Edition
Calumba
Ca-lum′ba
,Noun.
[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
.] American calumba
, the
Frasera Carolinensis
, also called American gentian
. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba.