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Banned medicine used to treat asthma
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ephedra
Alternative clues for the word ephedra
- Source of a nasal congestion remedy
- Banned supplement ingredient
- Bit of rubbish heaped untidily in shrub
- Banned diet pill ingredient
- Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds
- Untidy heap containing red, decomposing shrub
- Desert shrub
- F.D.A.-banned diet pill ingredient
Word definitions for ephedra in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds [syn: joint fir ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of low, branchy desert shrubs, 1914, from Modern Latin (1737) from Greek ephedra , a name given by Pliny to the horsetail, literally "sitting upon," from fem. of ephedros "sitting or seated upon; sitting at or near," from epi "on" (see epi- ) + hedra ...
Usage examples of ephedra.
Barbara Barnett has a stash of ephedra, and she used it to try to kill Sara.
The Indians often drank a tea made from ephedra, which she had come to like.
Jamie up in bed with a hot stone to his feet, a mustard plaster on his chest, and a hot tisane of aromatic peppermint and ephedra leaves to drink.