英语词汇“jamaica dogwood”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. More fully Jamaica dogwood. Any of various trees of the West Indian genus Piscidia (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), the bark of which was formerly used as a fish poison; (also) the wood of this tree.

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1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 143 A kind of Wood with which the Indians take their Fish... Dogg-wood Tree.

1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 275 Another sort of Fishing they had with the Bark of the Tree call'd Dog-wood, which being bruised and put into standing Waters..intoxicated them [sc. the fishes].

a1771 T. Jefferys W.-India Atlas (1799) 18/2 The dogwood, which does not yield to the English oak for hardness.

1836 Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 458 The best time for collecting this bark..is in the month of April, when the dogwood is in full flower, and before the expansion of the foliage.

1883 Lancet 25 Aug. 343/2 We have received from Messrs. Sumner and Co. of Liverpool specimens of dogwood bark and of their fluid extract of Jamaica dogwood.

1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 84 P. piscipula..Dogwood... The whole tree, but especially the bark of the roots, contains piscidin, which is sedative and hypnotic.

1976 Naples (Florida) Daily News 6 Feb. 2A/1 The Fishfuddle tree is also known as the Jamaica Dogwood. It is one of the most abundant tropical trees..in tropical Florida.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xiii. 393 She praises the beneficial effects of Jamaica dogwood, of cabbage rubbed against the skin.

单词	jamaica dogwood
释义	> as lemmas Jamaica dogwood 2. More fully Jamaica dogwood. Any of various trees of the West Indian genus Piscidia (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), the bark of which was formerly used as a fish poison; (also) the wood of this tree. ΚΠ 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 143 A kind of Wood with which the Indians take their Fish... Dogg-wood Tree. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 275 Another sort of Fishing they had with the Bark of the Tree call'd Dog-wood, which being bruised and put into standing Waters..intoxicated them [sc. the fishes]. a1771 T. Jefferys W.-India Atlas (1799) 18/2 The dogwood, which does not yield to the English oak for hardness. 1836 Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 458 The best time for collecting this bark..is in the month of April, when the dogwood is in full flower, and before the expansion of the foliage. 1883 Lancet 25 Aug. 343/2 We have received from Messrs. Sumner and Co. of Liverpool specimens of dogwood bark and of their fluid extract of Jamaica dogwood. 1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 84 P. piscipula..Dogwood... The whole tree, but especially the bark of the roots, contains piscidin, which is sedative and hypnotic. 1976 Naples (Florida) Daily News 6 Feb. 2A/1 The Fishfuddle tree is also known as the Jamaica Dogwood. It is one of the most abundant tropical trees..in tropical Florida. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xiii. 393 She praises the beneficial effects of Jamaica dogwood, of cabbage rubbed against the skin. extracted from dogwoodn. < as lemmas
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