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Asafoetida

noun
(Written also assafoetida)
1.
The brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic.  Synonym: asafetida.






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"Asafoetida" Quotes from Famous Books



... bear cannot be got out with the aid of a pole, and to meet such cases I had stink balls made, as bears have very fine olfactory nerves and seem particularly to object to disagreeable smells. These balls were composed of asafoetida, pig dung, and any other offensive ingredient that suggested itself to me at the time, and made up into about the size of a cricket ball and then dried in the sun. The ball was, when required to drive a bear out of a cave, impaled on ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot



Words linked to "Asafoetida" :   natural resin, asafetida



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