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Meaning of ma huang | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of various plants of the Ephedra genus, especially Ephedra sinica, used in traditional Chinese medicine.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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