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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A low European shrub, Coriaria myrtifolia, used in dyeing black.

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  • "Among vegetable substances useful in the arts is one that has long been known in New Grenada under the name of the ink-plant, as furnishing a juice which can be used in writing without previous preparation.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

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