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Cynanchum

a genus of asclepiadaceæ, of which some species have been used medicinally, as C. monspeliacum, as a violent purgative, the so-called montpellier scammony, and C. vincetoricum, formerly in repute as an antidote to other poisons. The Indian C. extensum yields fiber, and C. ovalifolium of Penang, caoutchouc.

CYNEWULF (kin'e-wulf), an Anglo- Saxon or early English poet, whose name we only know from its being given in runes in the poems attributed to him, viz., "Elene" (Helena), the legend of the discovery of the true cross; "Juliana," the story of the martyr of that name; and "Crist" (Christ), a long poem incomplete at the beginning. The name Cynewulf also occurs as the solution of one of the metrical riddles in the Anglo-Saxon collection. Cynewulf probably lived in the first half of the 8th century.

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