yaw-weed

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A shrubby West Indian plant, Morinda Royoc, used as a remedy for the yaws or frambœsia.

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

• noun (Bot.) A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.

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

• noun botany A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant with white flowers, found along the seacoast of the West Indies.