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Definition of American wormseed
1. Noun. Rank-smelling tropical American pigweed.
Generic synonyms: Goosefoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Wormseed
Literary usage of American wormseed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"... are found in the oil (see under Oil of Almonds) a crude artificial methyl
salicylate must have been used as the adulterant. american wormseed Oil. ..."
2. Organic materia medica: Including the Standard Remedies of the Leading by Parke, Davis & Company (1888)
"Oil american wormseed 2 minims Olive Oil • 8 minims. Fluid Extract american wormseed.
Not miscible with water without some precipitation. ..."
3. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"There is another drug, Chenopodium or american wormseed, which can be considered to
... The drag american wormseed is the fruit of Chenopodium ambrosioides ..."
4. Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics by William Hale-White (1895)
"CHENOPODIUM. CHENOPODIUM. Synonym.—american wormseed. ... <S\\ of american wormseed.
A volatile oil distilled from Chenopodium. CHARACTERS. ..."
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