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rheumatism weed
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Definition of rheumatism weed
: any of several North American plants used especially formerly in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in the joints: such as a : pipsissewa b : either of two common dogbanes (Apocynum cannibinum and A. androsaemifolium)
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