calumba

See also: Calumba

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From its native name in Mozambique.

Noun

calumba (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, archaic) The bitter root of a plant (Jateorhiza palmata), indigenous to Mozambique, and used as a tonic and antiseptic.

Derived terms
  • American columbo

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calumba in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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