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单词 copalche
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copalchen.

/kəʊˈpaltʃi/
Forms: Also copalchi.
Etymology: < a Central American Indian language of Mexico.
A shrub of Mexico and Central America, Croton pseudo-China or niveus, family Euphorbiaceæ, yielding the copalche-bark, used as a febrifuge, as a substitute for quinine; also a Brazilian tree Strychnos pseudo-China, to the bark of which the same properties have been ascribed.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 351 Croton pseudo-China, called in Mexico Copalche yields a bark..used in Mexico in place of cinchona.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1106 Strychnos pseudo-China, a native of Brazil, yields Copalche-bark, which is largely used in that country in cases of fever.
1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Copalchi bark.

Derivatives

coˈpalchine n. the bitter alkaloid of Copalchi bark. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon1882 .)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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