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Contrayerva [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The genus of plants, Dorstenia; all low herbaceous plants, natives of the warm climates of America, and useful as diaphoretics.

Contrayerva [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.