单词 | helleboraster |
释义 | helleborastern. Now historical and rare. The stinking hellebore, Helleborus foetidus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > hellebore > bear's foot settergrassa1400 bear's foot1551 setterwort1551 lousewort1578 lousy grass1597 oxheal1597 helleboraster1656 1656 R. Boyle Corr. 19 Mar. (2001) I. 201 The Helleboraster you mention, is a Plant, that I have had occasion to take notice of. 1690 J. Locke 2nd Let. Toleration 35 But your Remedy is like the Helleboraster, that grew in the Woman's Garden, for the cure of Worms in her Neighbours Children: For truly it wrought too roughly, to give it to any of her own. 1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 838 Of the former kind are the leaves and juice of helleboraster. 1790 Edinb. New Dispensatory (new ed.) ii. 198/2 Where the helleboraster is to be employed, this form is perhaps the best. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 372 The hellebores, helleboraster, and cevadilla,..are pungent bitters united with a strong cathartic power, and are hence very active vermifuges. 1859 A. S. Taylor On Poisons (ed. 2) 508 Another species, Helleborus fœtidus,..is known under the name of Bear's foot, Setter-wort, or Helleboraster. 1908 N. Moore Hist. Study Med. Brit. Isles ii. 73 He [sc. Edward Browne] paid at the same time some attention to botany, noting the flowering Aconitum hyemale and Helleboraster, and gathered many seaside plants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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