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PLUMBAGO (from Lat. plum-bum, lead)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PLUMBAGO (from Lat. plum-bum, lead)

PLUMBAGO (from See also:
LAT
Lat. See also:
PLUM
plum-bum, See also:
LEAD
LEAD (pronounced iced)
lead) , a name frequently applied to See also:

GRAPHITE

graphite (q.v.), in allusion to its remote resemblance to See also:

lead, whence it is popularly called " See also:

black-lead." It was formerly held in repute in See also:

MEDICINE

medicine, but is now regarded as having no medicinal properties of any value .

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