CONVOLVULUS SCAMMONIA

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Meaning:

Twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin

Synonyms:

Convolvulus scammonia; scammony

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Convolvulus scammonia" is a kind of...):

convolvulus (any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus)

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