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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ASARABACCA

As `a *ra *bac "ca, n. Etym: [L. asarum + bacca a berry. See Asarone. ](Bot. )

 

Defn: An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum ), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

asarabacca

asarabacca |ˈasərəˌbakə | ▶noun a low-growing European evergreen plant of the birthwort family, formerly used in medicine and as an ingredient in snuff. ●Asarum europaeum, family Aristolochiaceae. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Latin asarum (from Greek asaron ), probably compounded with a shortened form of another name for the plant in Greek.

 

Oxford Dictionary

asarabacca

asarabacca |ˈasərəˌbakə | ▶noun a low-growing European evergreen plant of the birthwort family, formerly used in medicine and as an ingredient in snuff. ●Asarum europaeum, family Aristolochiaceae. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Latin asarum (from Greek asaron ), probably compounded with a shortened form of another name for the plant in Greek.