kousson.
/ˈkʊsəʊ/ The dried flowers of an Ethiopian plant, Hagenia (Brayera) abyssinica (family Rosaceæ), used as an anthelmintic.
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1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 197 Kuosso, from Abyssinia (Brayera anthelmintica). The blossom of a tree..the native remedy..for the removal of tapeworm.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 620 Kuosso is an irritant.
1885 G. Watt Dict. Econ. Products India I. 534 Cusso or Konsso(?)..a bazar commercial article in Bombay; it comes direct from Africa.
1936 E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia i. 13 His mother lived by selling kosso, a specific against tapeworm, in the streets of Gondar.
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