styptic weed

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styptic weed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to contract.]
     Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality
     of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part;
     astringent. [Written also stiptic.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia  occidentalis
        ) closely related to the wild senna.
        [1913 Webster]

styptic weed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  styptic weed
      n 1: very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have
           been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified
           in genus Cassia [syn: coffee senna, mogdad coffee,
           styptic weed, stinking weed, Senna occidentalis,
           Cassia occidentalis]