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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Western wild cucumber in English is the name of a plant defined with Marah oregana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Sicyos oreganus Torr. & A. Gray (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· A Flora of North America (1840)
· Pittonia (1890)
· Pacific Railr. Rep. (1861)
· Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1876)
· Man. Bot. San Franc. Bay (1894)
· A Flora of Northwest America (1898)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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