An archaic or obsolete term, possibly referring to a type of plant or substance in historical or regional contexts.
The etymology is obscure; this may be a Latin term from historical texts or a regional designation whose origin has been lost to modern scholarship.
Words like catallum remind us that historical texts contain hundreds of plant and substance names we've completely forgotten—modern botanical research sometimes rediscovers what ancient herbals knew.
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