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单词 zerumbet
释义 zerumbet|zɪˈrʌmbɛt|
Also 7–8 -eth.
[Pg., ad. Hind., Pers. zerunbād.]
An East Indian plant of the genus Curcuma, or its aromatic root, used, like the allied cassumunar and zedoary, as a tonic drug.
[1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 269 Of the Apothecaries drugges: And of what price they are in Calicut and Malabar... Zerumba, the farazuola Fanan ii. Zedoaria, the farazuola Fanan i.]1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. ii. 151 The Zerumbet..likewise growes in these parts, and is like to ginger.1694Phil. Trans. XVIII. 278 Kua or Zerumbeth of our Shops, a Species of Ginger.1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 33 The Zedoary is the long Part of the Plant, serving as a root to the Zerumbeth.1861Bentley Man. Bot. 668 The so-called Cassumunar roots, Zedoary roots, and Zerumbet roots of commerce.
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