Styptic weed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia
    Senna occidentalis; stinking weed; mogdad coffee; Cassia occidentalis; coffee senna.

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  1. (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.

Webster 1913