calumba

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: from kalumb, its native name in Mozambique.

Medicine 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.]

American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54