The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asafetida \As`a*fet"i*da\, Asafoetida \As`a*f[oe]t"i*da\, n. The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant ( Ferula asaf[oe]tida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [1913 Webster] ||
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n. (alternative form of asafoetida English)
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Usage examples of "assafoetida".
Could you comprehend how the Romans stuffed their pheasants with assafoetida, and the Chinese eat swallows' nests?
I've given 'em a good deal of valerian and assafoetida,--not quite so much since the new blood came in.
Others consider it merely the acquisition of a habit of taking every morning before breakfast a dose of bitters, composed of whiskey and assafoetida, out of the acclimation jug.
Could you comprehend how the Romans stuffed their pheasants with assafoetida, and the Chinese eat swallows’ nests?
The old man and me, we hung bags of assafoetida around our necks to give the germs a fight.