Usually means: Strong-smelling resin used culinarily.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. asafetida: Merriam-Webster
  2. asafetida: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asafetida: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asafetida: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asafetida: Vocabulary.com
  6. asafetida: Wordnik
  7. asafetida: Wiktionary
  8. asafetida: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. asafetida (asafoetida): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. asafetida: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. asafetida: Dictionary.com
  12. Asafetida: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Asafetida: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. asafetida: Rhymezone
  15. Asafetida: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. asafetida: FreeDictionary.org
  17. asafetida: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. asafetida: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. asafetida: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asafetida: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asafetida: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. asafetida: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. asafetida: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Asafetida)

noun:  Alternative spelling of asafoetida [A resinous gum from the stem and roots of Ferula species such as Ferula foetida and Ferula assa-foetida, having a strong, unpleasant smell, with culinary and medical uses.]

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