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asafetida
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asafetida, n. [Asa + L. foetidus fetid.].
The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafœtida ) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [1913 Webster]
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