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Definition of Styptic weed
1. Noun. Very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia.
Generic synonyms: Senna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Styptic Weed
Literary usage of Styptic weed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"In dry gravelly soil, Pennsylvania to Georgia, Iowa, Kansas and Texas. July-Sept.
4. Cassia, occidentals L. Coffee Senna. Styptic-weed. Fig. 2440. ..."
2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"11 C. occidentalis, WESTERN S. or STYPTIC-WEED. Common S., nut. from South America:
l°-5° high, with 4-6 pairs of lance-ovate acute leaflets, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1887)
"... has been naturalized in the Southern United States as far north as Virginia,
and is known in some localities as styptic weed.—Amer. Jour. ..."
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