| 单词 | goat's thorn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat's thorn goat's thorn n. any of several low-growing, spiny shrubs of the genus Astragalus (family Fabaceae), of northern Eurasia and the Middle East, some of which yield tragacanth, esp. A. gummifer and A. tragacantha; (also) tragacanth, the whitish gum obtained from such a shrub. [After classical Latin tragacantha tragacanth n.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > other thorn-trees paliurec1384 paliurusa1398 sea-willow1548 Christ's thorn1553 buckler-thorn1562 garland-thorn1597 goat's thorn1597 Jews thorn1597 milk-vetch1597 sea-buckthorn1731 Spanish hedgehog thorn1760 sensitive briar1802 lily thorn1816 sallow thorn1847 cat-brier1875 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1148 Tragacantha..in English for want of a better name, Goates Thorne. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Barbe regnard, Goats-thorne; the shrub whose root yeeldeth Gumme dragogant. 1722 J. Miller Botanicum Officinale 439 The true Goat's Thorn has a long, thick, crooked, woody Root, taking fast Hold in the Ground by its many Fibres. 1798 Repertory Patent Inventions 8 96 Take one part of the gummy juice that issues..from the shrub called the Goat's Thorn. 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 638 Astragalus Tragacantha, gt. Goat's Thorn. Astragalus Poterium, sm. Goat's Thorn. 1948 Remington's Pract. Pharmacy (ed. 9) lxxii. 754/1 Tragacanth... Goat's Thorn... Tragacanth is the dried gummy exudation from Astragalus gummifer..or other Asiatic species of Astragalus. 1999 J. Blondel & J. Aronson Biol. & Wildlife Mediterranean Region iv. 95 The subalpine life zone is occupied by treeless grasslands dotted with many spiny dwarf legume shrubs with evocative names like ‘goats thorn’ or ‘hedgehog’. < as lemmas |
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