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Jesuit tea (medicine) and dowlas (iou)


Jesuit tea (medicine)


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chenopodium


The dried ripe fruit of Chenopodium ambrosoides (family Chenopodiaceae), American wormwood, from which a volatile oil is distilled and used as an anthelmintic.

Synonym: Jesuit tea, Mexican tea, wormseed.

Origin: G. Chen, goose, + pous (pod-), foot


dowlas (iou)



dowlas noun & adjective. ME.
[Daoulas, a village in Brittany.]
A. noun. Orig., a coarse kind of linen. Now, a strong calico made in imitation of it. ME.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Made of dowlas. M16.