Cul|ver's root

Cul|ver's root
Cul|ver's root «KUHL vuhrz»,
1. the root of a plant of eastern North America belonging to the figwort family, used in medicines as a cathartic and emetic.
2. the plant itself.
[< a Doctor Culver, who lived before the 1700's and used it in his practice]

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