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hydnocarpus Bot.|hɪdnəʊˈkɑːpəs|
[mod.L. (J. Gaertner De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788) I. 288), f. Gr. ὕδνον truffle + καρπός fruit, from the resemblance of the fruit to a truffle.]
a. A tree of the genus so called, belonging to the family Flacourtiaceæ and native to tropical Asia.
1928Daily Express 20 Feb. 2/1 Hydnocarpus oil is obtained from the dried fruit of the hydnocarpus tree. 1953N. L. Bor Man. Indian Forest Bot. 145 In Hydnocarpus the fruits are produced on the branches.
b. attrib., as hydnocarpus therapy; hydnocarpus oil, a yellowish oil or soft cream-coloured fat obtained from the seeds of trees of the genus Hydnocarpus, esp. H. wightiana and H. anthelminthica, and used, formerly extensively, in the treatment of leprosy.
1905Hydnocarpus oils [see hydnocarpic a.]. 1927Proc. R. Soc. Med. XX. 1011 Since early in 1921 we have used the preparations of chaulmoogra and hydnocarpus oils in our Hospital for Lepers, at Dichpalli, Hyderabad State. 1967Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 25) 494/2 Although largely replaced by the sulphones, hydnocarpus oil is still employed in the treatment of leprosy, especially in endemic areas in the East where it is cheap and readily available.
1964R. G. Cochrane Leprosy (ed. 2) xxi. 377, I do not hold with many workers that the day of hydnocarpus therapy has disappeared. |