Also kuosso, cusso, kosso, koso. [Abyssinian.] The dried flowers of an Abyssinian plant, Hagenia (Brayera) abyssinica (N.O. Rosaceæ), used as an anthelmintic.
1851. Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib., 197. Kuosso, from Abyssinia (Brayera anthelmīntica). The blossom of a tree … the native remedy … for the removal of tapeworm.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med. (ed. 6), 620. Kousso is an irritant.
1889. Watt, Dict. Econ. Prod. India, I. 534. Cusso or Kousso … a bazaar commercial article in Bombay; it comes direct from Africa.
