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Rank-smelling tropical American pigweed
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wormseed
Word definitions for wormseed in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. rank-smelling tropical American pigweed [syn: American wormseed , Mexican tea , Spanish tea , Chenopodium ambrosioides ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wormseed is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Dysphania ambrosioides , American wormseed or epazote , a culinary and medicinal herb from Central and South America Artemisia cina an Asian medicinal plant
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An aromatic tropical plant, ''Chenopodium ambrosioides'', that yields an anthelmintic oil
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wormseed \Worm"seed`\, n. (Bot.) Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica , and Chenopodium anthelminticum , whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard , a slender, cruciferous plant ( Erysinum ...
Usage examples of wormseed.
Iza was making herself a wormseed tea to encourage the flow of milk and to relieve the painful cramps of her uterus contracting back to its normal shape.