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santonica

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
san-ton-i-ca
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Asian plant (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), related to wormwood, which has been used since ancient times as a vermifuge due to its santonin content.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Latin santonica (adjective) (from Santonēs (a Celtic tribe of Aquitania)), most likely originally in a phrase such as herba santonica ("herb of the Santones").

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Inflected Forms

santonicas (plural)

Questions

What does santonica mean?
An Asian plant (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), related to wormwood, which has been used since ancient times as a vermifuge due to its santonin content.
Where does santonica come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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