condurango

condurango

English

Alternative forms

• cundurango

Noun

condurango (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The bark of a South American vine, Gonolobus cundurango, of the milkweed family, once erroneously believed to cure cancer.

Further reading

• condurango on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gonolobus+cundurango at The Plant List
• condurango in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 condurango in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Italian

Etymology

From English condurango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon.duˈran.ɡo/, [kon̪d̪uˈr̺äŋɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Stress: conduràngo
• Hyphenation: con‧du‧ran‧go

Noun

condurango m (uncountable)

1. (medicine) condurango