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单词 dumb cane
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dumb canen.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dumb adj., cane n.1
Etymology: < dumb adj. + cane n.1, so called on account of the effect of its juice upon the tongue (compare quot. 1830).
A West Indian araceous plant, Dieffenbachia Seguine.
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1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 296 The Dumb Cane..is not properly any Species of Reed or Cane, but of Arum or Wake-Robin.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 168.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 252.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 287 The Dumb Cane..has the power, when chewed, of swelling the tongue and destroying the power of speech.
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dumb cane
dumb cane n. an araceous plant, Dieffenbachia seguina.extracted from canen.1
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