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Little Entente (sh) and damiana (medicine)


Little Entente (sh)




Mutual defense arrangement formed in 1920-21 between Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania, with French support.

It was directed against German and Hungarian domination in the Danube River basin and toward protection of its members' territorial integrity. It was successful in the 1920s, but after Adolf Hitler's rise to power (1933) its members adopted increasingly independent foreign policies. The entente collapsed after Germany annexed the Czech Sudetenland (1938).


damiana (medicine)


damiana
<medicine> A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.

There are several varieties derived from different plants, especially. From a species of Turnera and from Bigelovia veneta.

Origin: NL.; of uncertain origin.

Source: Websters Dictionary