| 单词 | grey bark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey bark grey bark n. the (powdered) bark of any of several species of cinchona tree (genus Cinchona), containing the alkaloids quinine and cinchonine and used to treat malaria and other fevers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > cinchona tree or bark Peruvian bark1663 quinquina1681 Jesuits' Bark1704 quinaquina1708 quinquina1740 cinchona1742 quill bark1742 grey bark1781 red bark1782 bark-tree1783 yellow bark1794 cinchona-bark1811 crown bark1823 Loxa bark1825 Suriname bark1844 Lima bark1855 quinine tree1855 1781 London Med. Jrnl. Nov. 341 You may be assured that it [sc. a new kind of bark] is infinitely superior to the grey bark, and should be sought after by practitioners. 1848 A. B. Strong Amer. Flora II. 29 The cinchonine is in greater quantity than the quinine in the grey-bark, while in the yellow-bark, the quinine predominates. 1900 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: A–D 317/1 'Gray bark', from C[inchona] micrantha, C. nitida and C. Peruviana. 2005 W. Sneader Drug Discov. ix. 93 They isolated..cinchonine from samples of grey bark. < as lemmas |
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