styptic : Idioms & Phrases

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Styptic weed

  • noun very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia
    Senna occidentalis; stinking weed; mogdad coffee; Cassia occidentalis; coffee senna.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.
Webster 1913