monesia
English edit
Noun edit
monesia (uncountable)
- (medicine, dated) A vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America, believed to be derived from the bark of the tree Pradosia lactescens, and used as an alterative and astringent.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monesia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)