Epiphegus

[Gr. epi, upon, phegus, the beech; being supposed parasitical on the roots of that tree.) ( Bot.) A genus of plants, ord. Orobanchacea. The root of E. virgin i an a is called cancer-root, from having been formerly used as an application to cancers. It was the principal ingredient in a once celebrated nostrum, called Martin's cancer-powder. Epiphone'ma, n . [Gr.] ( Rhet . ) A striking exclamation which puts an end to a discourse or oration. Epiphora, (epifora,) n. (Gr.] (Med.) A disease occasioned by a superabundant secretion of tears. (Rhet.) A word repeated with emphatic effect, at the end of a series of stanzas.