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Calumba. World English Historical Dictionary

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Calumba. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Calumba Med. Formerly also calomba, calumbo, -ombo, columba, -umbo, -ombo. [f. Colombo, in Ceylon. ‘So called from a false impression that it was supplied from thence’ (M. T. Masters in Treas. Bot., 636).]

1   The root of Jateorhiza palmata (or Coccolus palmatus) N.O. Menospermaceæ, a plant indigenous to the forests of Mozambique, used in medicine as a mild tonic and stomachic.

2 1811.  Hooper, Med. Dict., Columbo … the root formerly so called is now termed Calumba in the London pharmacopœia…. As an antiseptic, Calumba root is inferior to the bark.

3 1876.  Harley, Mat. Med., 724. Calumba is indigenous to the forests of Eastern Africa, where it climbs to the tops of the loftiest trees.

4 1883.  Cassell’s Fam. Mag., Aug., 555/2. Take some of the milder bitter tonics—infusion of calumba, for instance.

5   Hence Calumbin [see -IN], Calumbic acid [see -IC], bitter substances found in Calumba root.

6 1837.  Penny Cycl., VII. 306/2. The active principle Calumbine … may be obtained either by alcohol or æther.

7 1876.  Harley, Mat. Med., 725. Calumbin is the principal constituent. Ibid. Calumbic acid is a yellow amorphous substance.

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