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[syn: coffee senna, mogdad coffee, styptic weed, stinking weed, Senna occidentalis, Cassia occidentalis]
The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Cassia occidentalis
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]