单词 | ipomœa |
释义 | Ipomœan. Botany. A genus of twining or creeping plants, mostly tropical, N.O. Convolvulaceæ, with trumpet- or salver-shaped corolla; many of the species possess medicinal properties, many are cultivated as flowering plants, and one, I. Batatas, furnishes the sweet potato. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > tropical quamoclit1633 sippo1657 monkey vine1750 goat's foot1773 Ipomœa1785 liana1796 Thunbergia?1799 morning-glory1814 gaybine1842 cypress vine1846 bejuco1848 scindapsus1848 Rangoon creeper1850 moonflower1859 kaladana1866 moon-lily1888 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 191 Ipomœa has rather a funnel-shaped than a campanulate corol. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands i. 5 Ipomæas of every shade..climbing over the ruined wall. 1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema (1880) xiv. 82 Against the golden leaves of maple..a special wreath of blue shone like a climbing ipomœa. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. xii. 351 The Ipomœa's purple buds gemmed with colour the tall stem of some sturdy tree. Derivatives ipoˈmœic adj. of Ipomœa, in ipomœic acid, named from Ipomœa jalapa, jalap: see quot. ΚΠ 1865–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. III. 314 Ipomæic acid. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. (1877) V. 214 Ipomæic acid..isomeric with sebacic acid, produced by the action of moderately strong nitric acid on convolvulic acid, convolvulinolic acid, jalapin, jalapic acid, or jalapinolic acid. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1785 |
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