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Asafetida; Asafoetida
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]