argeln.
/ˈɑːdʒəl/ Medicine.
The leaves of the African asclepiadaceous plant Solenostemma argel, formerly used to adulterate senna; also, the plant itself.
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1803 Philos. Mag. 15 58 The plant arguel, called senna of Mecca, placed in the class of the cynanchum by C. Nectoux, who has given an ample description of it.
1818 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory (ed. 2) ii. 93 The leaf of argel is an inch or 14 lines long, while that of senna never exceeds nine lines.
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 138 This addition to senna is important, as the argel gripes and nauseates.
1920 H. G. Greenish Text-bk. Materia Med. (ed. 3) 34 Argel leaves, Solenostemma Argel, Hayne;..formerly regularly mixed with the senna but now of rare occurrence.
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