An alternative or archaic term related to embelia plants or their chemical properties.
Variant or historical form possibly derived from embelia combined with obsolete English botanical nomenclature conventions from the 17th-18th centuries.
This word shows how scientific terminology evolves—botanists kept renaming and respelling plant names as translation methods improved, leaving behind weird variations like this one in old medical texts.
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