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Definitions of jalap in various dictionaries:
A twining, eastern Mexican vine (Exogonium purga) having tuberous roots that are dried, powdered, and used medicinally as a cathartic.
Any of several similar or related plants.
The dried tuberous roots of these plants.
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| Mexican cathartic |
| A Mexican drug |
| Dried root used as a drug |
| Purgative root |
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| May 21 2014 USA Today |
| Dec 29 2013 Universal |
| May 20 2011 USA Today |
| Sep 9 2001 The Times - Concise |
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| a purgative drug obtained chiefly from the tuberous roots of a Mexican climbing plant. |
| A twining eastern Mexican vine (Ipomoea purga syn. I. jalapa) having tuberous roots that are dried, powdered, and used medicinally as a cathartic. |
| Any of several similar or related plants. |
| The dried tuberous roots of these plants. |
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Jalap is a cathartic drug, its use largely archaic in the West, consisting of the tuberous roots of Ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant growing on the eastern declivities of the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico at an elevation of 5000 to 8000 ft. above sea level, more especially about the neighbourhood of Chiconquiaco on the eastern slope of the Cofre de Perote in the state of Veracruz. * Jalap has been known in Europe since the beginning of the 17th century, and derives its name from the city of Xalapa in Mexico, near which it grows, but its botanical source was not accurately determined until 1829, when Dr. J. R. Coxe of Philadelphia published a description. * The ordinary drug is distinguished in commerce as Vera Cruz jalap, from the name of the port whence it is shipped. Jalap has been cultivated for many years in India, chiefly at Ootacamund, and grows there as easily as a yam, often producing clusters of tubers weighing over 9 lb; but these, as they differ in appearance from the co |