styptic weed

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1.styptic weed - very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus CassiaCassia occidentalis, coffee senna, mogdad coffee, Senna occidentalis, stinking weedsenna - any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally