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ma huang

ma huang noun: any of various plants of the Ephedra genus, especially Ephedra sinica, used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Noun

ma huang (uncountable)

  1. Any of various plants of the Ephedra genus, especially Ephedra sinica, used in traditional Chinese medicine.
    • The active ingredients of ma huang had already been identified by the end of the nineteenth century by Japanese and German scientists, who named them ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.2003, Samuel H. Barondes, chapter 5, in Better than Prozac, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63

Origin of ma huang

From Mandarin 麻黃／麻黄 (máhuáng).

Questions about ma huang

What does ma huang mean?
Ma huang means any of various plants of the Ephedra genus, especially Ephedra sinica, used in traditional Chinese medicine.
What part of speech is ma huang?
Ma huang is a noun.

Words near ma huang in the dictionary

  1. Ma Bell
  2. Ma Deuce
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  4. Ma Donald
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  6. ma huang
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  8. ma mas
  9. ma nishtana
  10. ma non troppo
  11. Ma On Shan

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