英语词汇“carthamus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	carthamus
释义	‖ carthamus\|ˈkɑːθəməs\| Also 7 cartamus, 8 carthame. [mod.L. carthamus (in F. carthame), ad. Arab. qarṭum, qirṭim, in same sense.] A small genus of annual composite plants; esp. C. tinctorius (Safflower or Bastard Saffron), cultivated from southern Europe to China, the flowers of which yield red and yellow dyes. b. The florets used in the mass as a dye, and as a drug. 1548Turner Names of Herbes, Cnecus..is called..in englishe Bastarde saffron or mocke-saffron..The Poticaries call thys herbe carthamus.1662Fuller Worthies i. 317 No precious drug is more adulterated [than Saffron] with Cartamus.1750Beawes Lex Mercat. 806 Commodities of the Country's [Java's] Growth..Carthame (or Bastard Saffron).1814Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. 146 The Carthamus contains a red and a yellow colouring matter..from the red, rouge is prepared. Hence carˈthamic a., as in *carthamic acid, the same as ˈcarthamin, the red colouring matter of safflower, C₁₄H₁₆O₇. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies* 405 Carthamin. This..Dobereiner considers as an acid, to which he has given the name of carthamic acid.1863–72Watts Dict. Chem. I. 808 The carthamin is precipitated in red flocks.
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