scammony

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun tropical American morning glory
noun resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia
noun twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin

From Middle English scamōnīe, from Old French scamonie, from Latin scammōnia, from Ancient Greek σκαμμώνιον (skammṓnion).

All things change!’ ‘Let us talk, then, of scammony. — Tancred; Or, The New Crusade, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
I am making my will, the doctors are preparing me a dose of castor and scammony, and you are scolding me and plying me with philosophy." — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch
The organ was indeed the strangest that ever eyes beheld; for the pipes were of cassia fistula in the cod; the top and cornice of guiacum; the bellows of rhubarb; the pedas of turbith, and the clavier or keys of scammony. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

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