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[syn: columbo, American columbo, deer's-ear, deer's-ears, pyramid plant, American gentian]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Calumba \Ca*lum"ba\, n. [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.]
[1913 Webster]
American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called
American gentian. Its root has been used in medicine as
bitter tonic in place of calumba.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
American gentian
n 1: any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus
Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of
California, Oregon, and Washington [syn: columbo,
American columbo, deer's-ear, deer's-ears, pyramid
plant, American gentian]