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单词 jalap
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jalapn.

Brit. /ˈdʒaləp/, /ˈdʒɒləp/, U.S. /ˈdʒɑləp/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s jallap, jallop, jollop.
Etymology: = French jalap, < Spanish jalapa, in full purga de Jalapa, < Jalapa formerly Xalapa, a city of Mexico, in Aztec Xalapan (pronounced /ʃaˈlaːpan/), lit. ‘sand by the water’ < xalli sand + atl water + pan upon. (Skeat in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1889.) Aztec names in -an, with accent on penult, uniformly lost the n in Spanish.
1. A purgative drug obtained from the tuberous roots of Exogonium (Ipomœa) Purga and some other convolvulaceous plants; the active principle is the resin contained in the tubers ( resin of jalap).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived
scammonyc1000
lign-aloesc1374
hiera picra1379
rhubarbc1390
aloea1398
cassia fistulaa1398
coloquintidaa1398
senec1400
turpethc1400
coloquintc1420
diagrydium1436
lignum aloes1525
rhabarbarum1533
xylaloes1540
manna1541
scilla1548
hyera?1550
emblic1555
diasenna1562
colocynth1565
tragonce1575
pinyon1577
mechoacan1587
lignum aquilae1600
gamboge1615
dragon-root1621
helleborism1621
diaprune1625
alhandal1630
makinboy1652
luskard1653
diagrydiate1657
physic nut1657
aloetic1661
scammoniate1665
jalap1675
aloedary1683
coloquinto1683
Briançon manna1688
liquorice powder1712
coloquintid1732
castor oil1746
senna-tea1752
higry pigry1773
Turkey rhubarb1789
argel1803
hickery-pickery1816
cathartin1823
aloin1828
croton oil1829
jalapin1832
syrmaea1833
bryonin1836
gambogic acid1837
Podophyllum1844
podophyllin1851
geropiga1852
hicra picra1857
Montpellier turpeth1860
picra1860
tallicoona oil1866
scammonin1868
pharbitisin1873
cascara sagrada1879
senna-draught1879
tambor-oil1890
syrup of figs1897
pharbitin1899
1675 N. Grew Disc. Tastes Plants v. §6 Jalap hath a special property of irritating the Glandulous Parts of the Mouth, and Throat.
1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Jalap, a purging drug.
1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians (ed. 5) iii. 8 The Lad who would a ’Pothecary shine, Should powder Claws of Crabs, and Jalap, fine.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 626/1 Although the best jalap is obtained from Exogonium purga, yet many species of Ipomæa supply it, though of an inferior quality.
1880 J. W. Legg On Bile 175 Next to Colocynth as a cholagogue Röhrig sets jalap.
2. The Mexican climbing plant Exogonium Purga, with salver-shaped purplish flowers; also applied to some allied plants yielding a similar drug. false jalap, Mirabilis Jalapa; male jalap, jalap tops, I. orizabensis ( I. batatoides); Mechoacan jalap, I. Jalapa; wild jalap, Convolvulus panduratus. (Miller Plant-names). East Indian jalap, garden jalap: see the first element.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > jalap or turpeth plant or root
turpethc1400
mechoacan1577
jalap1698
mechameck1811
1698 G. Thomas Hist. Acct. Pensilvania 19 Poke-Root, called in England Jallop.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Night-shade, a Plant which the Learned Father Plumier..calls Jalap.
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 394 Houstoun..had travelled into that part of Spanish America where jalap grows spontaneously.
1860 E. B. Tylor Anahuac xii. 317 In the neighbouring forests grows the ‘purga de Jalapa’, which we have shortened into jalap.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 501 Jalap is now grown in the open air in botanical gardens in the south of England, and on the continent.

Compounds

attributive, as jalap plant, jalap root, jalap tuber; jalap-stalks n., jalap-wood n. (see quot. 1865-72).
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1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 610 Macerate the jalap root in the spirit for four days.
1865–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. III. 436 Spurious, woody or fusiform jalap, jalap-wood, or jalap-stalks,..the root of Convolvulus orizabensis, is sometimes mixed with genuine jalap.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 484/1 E[xogonium] Purga..furnishes the true Jalap tubers of commerce.

Derivatives

jalap v. (transitive) to dose or purge with jalap.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > purge > using specific substance
jalapa1777
invert1796
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 61 Yesterday..we bled the West ward, and jalloped the North.
1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) lxxix. 545 He again had recourse to the jalaped Tent [wine].
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