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Webster 1828 Edition

Swallow-wort

SWAL'LOW-WORT

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Noun.
A plant of the genus Asclepias; hirundinaria. It grows in the southern part of Europe, and is said to have been successfully used as a medicine, chiefly in dropsical cases.
The African swallow-wort is of the genus Stapelia.

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