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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a genus of herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics.

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  • noun herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics

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  • According to the DA, ingredients include: canavalia rosea, clematis vitalba, nelumbo nucifera, pedicularis grand folia, heimia salicifolia, leonurus sibiricus, ledum palustre, blue lotus, baybean and a number of other herbs.

    Gothamist 2010

  • According to the DA, ingredients include: canavalia rosea, clematis vitalba, nelumbo nucifera, pedicularis grand folia, heimia salicifolia, leonurus sibiricus, ledum palustre, blue lotus, baybean and a number of other herbs.

    Gothamist 2010

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