moschatel

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MOS'CHATEL, noun [Latin muscus, musk.] A plant of the genus Adoxa, hollow root or inglorious. There is one species only, whose leaves and flowers smell like musk; and hence it is sometimes called musk-crowfoot.
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