| 单词 | jatropha plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjatropha plant General attributive, as jatropha bush, jatropha oil, jatropha plant, jatropha seed, jatropha tree, etc. ΚΠ 1848 London Med. Gaz. 7 116/2 This case indicates that the primary action of jatropha seeds is that of an irritant. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 879/2 Jatropha oil. The uses of this oil from the Jatropha curcas as a drying oil have as yet hardly been tried. 1889 Newbery House Mag. Sept. 350 To tumble into a Jatropha bush..was never the pleasantest incident of a day's ramble, as the weed combines the prickliness of the thistle with the poison of the stinging nettle. 1911 W. I. Pierce Plain Talks on Materia Medica 525 Much of the commercial croton oil is made from the jatropha seeds. 1961 Corpus Christi (Texas) Times 5 May c6/1 Your plant seems to be the Cassava... It is related to the Castor bean and the Jatropha plant. 2005 Guardian 23 Feb. i. 20/6 The fuel is produced from the seeds of jatropha trees, which are fed into refineries. < as lemmas |
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