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goutweed
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goutweed, n. [So called from having been formerly used in assuaging the pain of the gout.].
A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria ); -- called also bishop's weed , ashweed , and herb gerard . [1913 Webster]
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