Usually means: Ancient plant used for medicine.
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  1. silphium: Merriam-Webster
  2. silphium: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Silphium: Vocabulary.com
  4. silphium: Wordnik
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  7. silphium: Online Etymology Dictionary
  8. Silphium (genus), Silphium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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noun:  (historical) A plant, thought to be extinct, used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in cooking and as a contraceptive.

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