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Asafoetida   Listen
noun
Asafoetida, Asafetida  n.  (Written also assafoetida)  The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.






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"Asafoetida" Quotes from Famous Books



... Neewa was ahead of him there. The spruce and balsam gum clogged up his teeth and almost made him vomit because of its bitterness. Between a snail and a stone he could find little difference, and as the one bug he tried happened to be that asafoetida-like creature known as a stink-bug he made no further efforts in that direction. He also bit off a tender tip from a ground-shoot, but instead of a young poplar it was Fox-bite, and shrivelled up his tongue for a quarter of an hour. At last he arrived at the conclusion ...
— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood



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