calumba

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)From its native name in Mozambique.

• IPA^(key): /kæˈlʌmbə/, /kəˈlʌmbə/

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calumba (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) A bitter root of a plant (Jateorhiza palmata), indigenous to Mozambique, and used as a tonic and antiseptic.

• calombo, colombo, columbo

• American columbo (Frasera fastigiata, syn. Frasera carolinensis)
• columbamine

• “calumba”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “calumba”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Cambalu