Word Meanings - SAGAPENUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S. Disp.

Related words: (words related to SAGAPENUM)

• HYSTERIA
  A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• FETIDNESS
  The quality or state of being fetid.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• FERULACEOUS
  Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
• RESIN
  Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin
• RESINOUSNESS
  The quality of being resinous.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• RESINOUS
  Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.
• RESINATE
  Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
• SELDOMNESS
  Rareness. Hooker.
• RESINOID
  Somewhat like resin.
• RESINIFEROUS
  Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.
• RESINO-ELECTRIC
  Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
• SELDOM
  Rare; infrequent. "A suppressed and seldom anger." Jer. Taylor.
• RESINIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.
• FETID
  Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.
• FERULA
  punishing schoolboys), rod, whip, fr. ferire to strike; akin to OHG. 1. A ferule. Beau. & Fl. 2. The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.
• RESINY
  Like resin; resinous.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• OLEORESIN
  A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• KAURI RESIN; KAURI GUM; KAURI COPAL
  A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• ASAFETIDA; ASAFOETIDA
  The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant of Persia and the East India.