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ma huang

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ma huang also ma·huang  (mä-hwäng)
n.
Any of various Asian shrubs of the genus Ephedra, especially E. sinica, from which the drug ephedrine is obtained.
[Chinese (Mandarin) má huáng : má, hemp + huáng, yellow.]
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