asarabacca

English

Etymology

From Latin asarum + bacca (“a berry”). See asarone.

Noun

asarabacca (usually uncountable, plural asarabaccas)

  1. An acrid herbaceous plant, Asarum europaeum, whose leaves and roots are emetic and cathartic.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for asarabacca in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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