Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sagapenum

Sagapenum , noun

[Latin sagapenon, sacopenium, Greek {not transcribed}: compare French sagapin, gomme sagapin, sagapénum, Arabic sikbīnaj, Per. sakbīnah, sikbīnah.]

(Medicine) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. See also asafetida. — U. S. Disp