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noun
A flowering plant of the species Arisaema amurense, native to East Asia, whose roots are used for traditional medicine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天南星 (tiānnánxīng).
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