单词 | alcornoque |
释义 | alcornoquen. 1. Any of various tropical American shrubs or trees yielding a medicinal bark; esp. Bowdichia virgilioides (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), used also for timber. Also: the bark of these trees or a medicinal preparation made from it (and other parts of the tree), supposed to act as an anti-inflammatory, or the timber itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > names applied to various types alcornoque1810 guaco1834 1810 N.-Y. Evening Post 2 Oct. If the virtues..attributed to the Alcornoque should be found equal to the cure of pulmonary and liver complaints, how immense will be the importance of its discovery. 1832 G. Don Gen. Syst. Gardening & Bot. II. 464 Bowdichia: At the mouth of the Orinoco where it is commonly called Alcornoque. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 529 The bark [of Bowdichia] with that of one or more species of Byrsonima..is said to form the American Alcornoco or Alcornoque Bark of commerce. 1899 Proc. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. 569 Professor Hartwich identifies it as one of the so-called ‘alcornoco barks’, a name which signifies simply ‘cork-bark’, and has been applied to the barks of Cæsalpiniae, Euphorbiaceæ and Malpighiaceæ. 1913 Timberman Aug. 23B/2 Alcornoco resembles the northern ash and may be put to any of the purposes served by the latter, than which it is much more durable. 1955 Jrnl. Range Managem. 8 12/2 Scattered throughout the grassy area are such trees as chaparro, merey, alcornoque and copaiba. 2006 M. Allaby Grasslands i. 16 These [trees] include..the alcornoque or sucupira (Bowdichia virgilioides), the bark of which is used to treat tuberculosis. 2. The cork oak, Quercus suber. Also: the bark of this, formerly used in tanning and occasionally medicinally. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bark > [noun] > for tanning tan1604 mill1626 quercitron1785 tan-bark1799 alcornoque1821 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > cork-oak cork-treec1440 suber1579 cork1601 alcornoque1821 cork oak1873 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > oak as timber tree > cork-tree cork-treec1440 cork1601 alcornoque1821 cork oak1873 1821 S. F. Gray Suppl. Pharmacopœia (new ed.) 32 Cork Tree. Quercus Suber... Bark of the young twigs, alconorque, used in intermittent fevers. 1847 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. Feb. 363 European alcornoque bark is used by tanners. It is generally known in this country by the name of cork-tree bark, and is imported chiefly into Ireland. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 35 The Alcornoque of Spain is the bark of the cork-tree. 1880 R. V. Tuson Cooley's Cycl. Pract. Receipts (ed. 6) I. 76/2 The bark of the young branches of the cork tree (quercus suber), used in tanning, is also sometimes called alcornoco bark. 1962 Geogr. Rev. 52 213 On sandy soils the cork oak, alcornoque (Quercus suber), tends to occur, either in pure stands or codominant with the ilex. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810 |
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