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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name for certain drugs, originally used separately with the Latin adjectives dulcis and fetida (fœtida), now joined to them as a prefix. See below. Also spelled assa.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An ancient name of a gum.

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