Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Asafetida

Asafetida ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Asa + Latin foetidus fetid.]

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.

Also: Asafoetida