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单词 eucalyptus
释义

eucalyptusn.

/juːkəˈlɪptəs/
Forms: Plural eucalypti, eucalyptuses.
Etymology: modern Latin, as if < Greek *εὐκάλυπτος , < εὐ- (see- eu- comb. form) + καλυπτός covered, < καλύπ-τειν to cover. The name, first given by L'héritier in 1788, was intended to mean ‘well-covered’ (compare the German name schönmütze); the flower before it opens being protected by a sort of cap (‘calyptra obverse hemisphærica’, L'héritier).
1. A genus of plants of the family Myrtaceæ; the gum tree of Australia and the neighbouring islands; an individual tree of this kind.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > Australasian > eucalyptus gum-trees
gum tree1676
red gum tree1790
eucalyptus1809
eucalypt1877
1809 Naval Chron. 22 388 The Thelaleuca, Casuarina, Eucalyptus.
1823 S. Smith Botany Bay in Wks. (1859) II. 22/1 A London thief..lodged under the bark of the dwarf eucalyptus, and keeping sheep..is not an uninteresting picture.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 89 Upon the lower mammalia the oil of Eucalyptus appears to act precisely as it does on man.
1879 Temple Bar Oct. 237 The sombre eucalypti..interspersed here and there by their dead companions.
2. Used elliptically for eucalyptus oil, any of many essential oils distilled from the leaves of eucalypts and used medicinally and industrially.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils
oil de baya1398
oil roseta1400
alkitranc1400
laurinec1400
oil of spicac1400
seed oil1400
rape oil1420
nut-oil?c1425
masticine?1440
oil de rose?1440
oil of myrtine?a1450
gingellya1544
rose oil1552
alchitrean1562
oil of spike1577
oil of ben1594
myrtle oil1601
sesamus1601
sampsuchine1616
oil of walnuts1622
rape1641
oil of rhodium1649
rapeseed oil1652
neroli1676
oil of mace1681
spirit of scurvy-grass1682
beech-oil1716
poppy oil1737
castor oil1746
oil of sassafras1753
orange-peel oil1757
wood-oil1759
bergamot1766
sunflower oil1768
Russia oil1773
oil castor1779
tung-yu1788
poppy-seed oil1799
cocoa butter1801
sassafras oil1801
phulwara1805
oil of wine1807
grass oil1827
oil of marjoram1829
cajuput oil1832
essence of mustarda1834
picamar1835
spurge oil1836
oenanthic ether1837
tea oil1837
capnomor1838
cinnamon-oil1838
oil of mustard1838
orange-flower oil1838
resinein1841
mustard oil1844
myrrhol1845
styrol1845
oenanthol1847
shea butter1847
wintergreen1847
gaultheria oil1848
ginger-grass oil.1849
nutmeg oil1849
pine oil1849
peppermint oil1850
cocoa fat1851
orange oil1853
neem oil1856
poonga oil1857
xanthoxylene1857
crab-oil1858
illupi oil1858
Shanghai oil1861
stand oil1862
mustard-seed oil1863
carap oilc1865
cocum butter or oilc1865
Kurung oil1866
muduga oil1866
pichurim oil1866
serpolet1866
sumbul oil1868
sesame oil1870
niger oil1872
summer yellow1872
olibene1873
patchouli oil1875
pilocarpene1876
styrolene1881
tung oil1881
becuiba tallow1884
soy oil1884
tea-seed oil1884
eucalyptus1885
sage oil1888
hop-oil1889
cotton-seed oil1891
lemon oil1896
palmarosa oil1897
illipe butter1904
hydnocarpus oil1905
tung1911
niger seed oil1917
sun oil1937
vanaspati1949
fennel oil-
1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 262/2 Odor and expense serve to tell against eucalyptus preparations.
1888 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Apr. 849 Eucalyptus acts chiefly on nerve centres.
1898 Lancet 12 Nov. 1304/2 I made a mask of cotton-wool and soaked it with eucalyptus and olive oil.
1970 J. Crossland Lewis's Pharmacol. (ed. 4) xxviii. 832 Cough stimulants are many in number... They include tolu, menthol, eucalyptus, guaiacol, terpin hydrate, benzoin and oil of turpentine.

Compounds

General attributive, as eucalyptus leaf, eucalyptus oil.
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1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 309 Gas extracted from eucalyptus leaves.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Eucalyptus oil.

Derivatives

Hence are formed the names of various products; as, (See quots.)
eucaˈlyptene n. [+ -ene comb. form]
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1879 H. Watts Dict. Chem. VII. 2nd Suppl. 494 s.v. Eucalyptol heated with phosphoric anhydride gives up water, and yields eucalyptene, C12H18.
eucaˈlyptin n. [+ -in suffix1]
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1853 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 13 79 Kino consists principally of a peculiar substance (eucalyptin) analogous..to pectin.
eucaˈlyptol n. [+ -ol suffix]
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1879 H. Watts Dict. Chem. VII. 2nd Suppl. 493 Eucalyptol, this compound is contained in large quantity in the volatile oil of Eucalyptus globulus.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 July 12/2 Any preparation from which the slightest odour of eucalyptol is diffused.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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