| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bidens pilosa | Botanical | 1: The young shoots serve as a potherb not really requiring salt. They are sometimes mixed with half-boiled rice grains and fermented to make a kind of sake. Warm juice of the plant is styptic. Leaves are vulnerary, and used to wash wounds in the choco. A heated infusion of the plant is used as a bath to relieve pains of rheumatism. Flowers cooked with sugar are taken internally for colds. The root is used in Antioquia for hepatic infections. (references) | |
| 2: "Beggar's Tick" "Ko'oko'olau" (references) | |||
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