Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Columbo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Calumba \Ca*lum"ba\, n. [from kalumb, its native name in
Mozambique.] (Med.)
The root of a plant ({Jateorrhiza Calumba}, and probably
{Cocculus palmatus}), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an
unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and
antiseptic. [Written also {colombo}, {columbo}, and
{calombo}.]
{American calumba}, the {Frasera Carolinensis}, also called
{American gentian}. Its root has been used in medicine as
bitter tonic in place of calumba.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Columbo \Co*lum"bo\, n. (Med.)
See {Calumba}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
columbo
n : any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus
Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of
the United States Pacific states [syn: {American columbo},
{deer's-ear}, {deer's-ears}, {pyramid plant}, {American
gentian}]
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