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Webster 1913 Edition
Senecas
Sen′e-cas
,Noun.
pl.
sing.
. Seneca
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.
Seneca grass
(Bot.)
, holy grass. See under
– Holy
. Seneca eil
, petroleum or naphtha.
– Seneca root
, or
Seneca snakeroot
(Bot.)
, the rootstock of an American species of milkworth (
Polygala Senega
) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also
Senega root
, and Seneka root
.]