calumban.
/kəˈlʌmbə/ Medicine.
The root of Jateorhiza palmata (or Coccolus palmatus) family Menospermaceæ, a plant indigenous to the forests of Mozambique, used in medicine as a mild tonic and stomachic.
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1789 A. Crawford in Med. Communications 2 330 The powder of colombo root.
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 295 The infus. gentian comp. was ordered in lieu of the colombo.
1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) Columbo..the root formerly so called is now termed Calumba in the London pharmacopœia..As an antiseptic, Calumba root is inferior to the bark.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica v. 133 The root of the Frasera Walteri..is said to be not inferior to gentian and columbo.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 724 Calumba is indigenous to the forests of Eastern Africa, where it climbs to the tops of the loftiest trees.
1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 555/2 Take some of the milder bitter tonics—infusion of calumba, for instance.
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caˈlumbin n. [see -in suffix1] bitter substances found in calumba root.
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1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 306/2 The active principle Calumbine..may be obtained either by alcohol or æther.
1842 J. Liebig & W. Gregory E. Turner's Elements Chem. (ed. 7) 1121 Columbine.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 57 Columbin, a bitter neutral principle crystallizing in rhomboid prisms or needles.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 725 Calumbin is the principal constituent.
caˈlumbic acid n. [see -ic suffix]
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1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 725 Calumbic acid is a yellow amorphous substance.
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