asafetida

See also: asafètida and asafëtida

English

Noun

asafetida (usually uncountable, plural asafetidas)

1. Alternative spelling of asafoetida
   • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 220:

     If one of her chickens got the snuffles one day, rubbing asafetida in butter on their nostrils would set them straight.