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dumb cane
A West Indian araceous plant, Dieffenbachia Seguine, so called from the effect of its acrid juice upon the tongue: see quot 1830.
1696Phil. Trans. XIX. 296 The Dumb Cane..is not properly any Species of Reed or Cane, but of Arum or Wake-Robin. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 168. 1750 G. Hughes Barbadoes 252. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 287 The Dumb Cane..has the power, when chewed, of swelling the tongue and destroying the power of speech. |