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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of smooth annual herbs, type of the order Pedalineæ and the tribe Pedalieæ, known by the peculiar hard obtuse fruit, which has a cylindrical solid base, and above swells into an ovoid form, becoming pyramidal, with four obtuse angles, on each of which is a spreading conical spine or horn.
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