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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kava \Ka"va\, n. [Polynesian.] (Bot.)
A species of {Macropiper} ({M. methysticum}), the long
pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is
made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also
the beverage itself [Written also {kawa}, {kava}, and
{ava}.]
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