| 释义 |
‖ jacaranda
(dʒækəˈrændə, prop. dʒakaranˈdaː)
[Tupi-Guarani jacarandá.]
Name given to various trees of tropical America yielding fragrant and ornamental wood (called, in common with various other timbers, rosewood); esp. to those of the genus Jacaranda (family Bignoniaceæ). b. The wood of any of these trees. c. A drug obtained from a tree of the genus Jacaranda.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Jacaranda,..a name given by some authors to the tree the wood of which is the log⁓wood, used in dying and in medicine. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 92 The fine Jacaranda or Rosewood of commerce..is produced by a species of Mimosa. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1353 Writing table, of Jacaranda wood. 1887Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v., Jacaranda, in the form of a fluid extract of the leaves of J. procera,..is given..in chronic catarrh of the bladder. |