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‖ cassuˈmunar Med.
Also casumunar, -muniar, casmunar.
[app. a corruption of some eastern name.]
The tuberous root of an East Indian plant (apparently Curcuma aromatica Salisb., C. Zedoaria Roxb.); it is warm, bitter and aromatic, smells like ginger, and is used in hysterical, epileptic and paralytic affections. (Cf. zedoary.)
1693Pechey (title) Some Observations made upon the Root Casmunar, brought from the East Indies. 1700Sloane in Phil. Trans. XXII. 580 A root..made great use of..in Epileptic, Convulsive and Head diseases..called Cassumuniar. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 92 Casamunar is lately come into use. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App., Cassumniar..a root approaching to the nature of zeodary. 1885W. Dymock Veg. Mat. Med. of Ind. 770 Identical with the Cassumunar described by Pereira. |