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Definition of Ayapana
1. Noun. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium.
Group relationships: Genus Ayapana
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Definition of Ayapana
1. Noun. ''Ayapana triplinervis'', a tropical American shrub ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ayapana
Literary usage of Ayapana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"The ayapana has been cultivated in India for a considerable time. ... In the
Pharmacopeia of India there is the following notice of ayapana:—" A South ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1908)
"ayapana Oil—Constituents.—Referring to a specimen of ayapana oil ... They also
received a second sample of ayapana oil, which behaved exactly in the same ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Assam tea. See def. 2. - Australian tea. See tea- free,—ayapana tea, a tea made
from ayapana, or the plant Itself. See ayapana. — Barbary tea. ..."
4. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin by University of Wisconsin (1910)
"Before having been found in ayapana oil, this ether was known to exist only in
the oil from arnica root, another composite plant. Of the 500 or more species ..."
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