Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fetid gumresin, the concrete juice of a Persian species of Ferula, formerly used in amenorrhea, hysteria, etc., or externally.

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

  • noun (Med.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A yellow to brown bitter gum that derives from plants of the genus Ferula.

Etymologies

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Latin sagapenon, sacopenium.

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Examples

  • Scinde, musk from Tibet, galbanum from Khorasan; from Afghanistan, asafetida; from Persia, sagapenum; ambergris and civet from Zanzibar, and from Zanzibar came ivory, too.

    Messer Marco Polo Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

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