AVA

n. Syn.: awa, aba-kava, kava. A name given in the South Sea Islands to the Piper methysticum. also to à fermented drink made from its root; in New Caledonia, applied to the Bro us so net i a papyri fer a; and in Japan, according to Thunberg, to the Panicum vert i cill a tum. Bs 121'; L,56.|—A’pfeffer Ger.). The Piper methysticum. [L, 80.]