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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Styptic Weed

stymie
stymied
stymieing
stymies
styming
stymy
stymying
styphnate
styphnates
styphnic
styphnic acid
stypsis
stypsises
styptic
styptic pencil
styptic weed (current term)
styptical
stypticity
styptick
styptics
styracin
styracosaur
styracosaurus
styrax
styrax family
styraxes
styre
styred
styrene
styrene-butadiene-styrene

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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