(n) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato, Syn. manroot, scammonyroot, wild sweet potato vine, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, Ipomoea fastigiata

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Cammas

n. (Bot.) See Camass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cammock

n. [ AS. cammoc. ] (Bot.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scammel

{ or } n. (Zool.) The female bar-tailed godwit. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Whether this is the scamel mentioned by Shakespeare [ “Tempest, ” ii. 2 ] is not known. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scammoniate

a. Made from scammony; as, a scammoniate aperient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scammony

n. [ F. scammonée, L. scammonia, scammonea, Gr. skammwni`a. ] 1. (Bot.) A species of bindweed or Convolvulus (Convolvulus Scammonia). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inspissated sap obtained from the root of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic. [ 1913 Webster ]

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