Ferula persica, gum, smell, taste like it
a plant, prob. Ferula persica, Gal. 12.117; also its gum, Dsc. 3.80, 81; and as Adj., ὀπὸς σαγαπηνός Gal. l.c., 13.567:—hence σαγᾰπηνίζω, smell or taste like it, Id. 14.55.
The corpus record
σᾰγάπηνον
sagapenon · τό
Ferula persica
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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