Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of gamopetalous plants of the order Asclepiadeæ and tribe Cynancheæ.

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  • noun succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia

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  • Soma is properly the juice of a milky plant (_asclepias acida_, or _sarcostemma viminale_), which, when fermented, is intoxicating.

    Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans William Muir 1859

  • _soma_-plant (for the plant used later for _soma_, the _asclepias acida_, or _sarcostemma viminale_, does not grow in the Punj [= a] b region, and cannot have been the original _soma_), the status of

    The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

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    Rational Review 2009

  • The Vedic plant is unknown (not the _sarcostemma viminale_).] [Footnote 15: RV.

    The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

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