opoponax chironum

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opoponax chironum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Opopanax \O*pop"a*nax\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? vegetable juice +
     pa`nax, pa`nakes, a kind of plant: cf. F. opopanax.]
     The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the
     Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies
     in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a
     reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong
     smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as
     an emmenagogue and antispasmodic. --Dunglison.
     [1913 Webster]