STYPTIC WEED

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Meaning:

Very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia

Synonyms:

Cassia occidentalis; coffee senna; mogdad coffee; Senna occidentalis; stinking weed; styptic weed

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("styptic weed" is a kind of...):

senna (any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally)

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