scammony noun. ['skamǝni] OE.
[from Old French escamonie, scamonee or Latin scammonea, -ia, from Greek skammōnia, -ōnion.]
A purgative drug obtained from the dried roots of the western Asian Convolvulus scammonia or (more fully Mexican scammony) the Mexican Ipomoea orizabensis, both of the bindweed family. Also, either of these plants.

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