mezereumn.
/mᵻˈzɪərɪəm/, U.S. /məˈzɪriəm/ Now rare.
A mezereon, spec. Daphne mezereum; (also) a medicinal preparation of Daphne mezereum (cf. mezereon n. 2).
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laureolec1386
Daphnec1430
mezereona1500
laurel1548
daffadowndilly1591
Dutch mezereon1597
herb terrible1597
spurge laurel1597
widow wail1597
rock rose1629
spurge olive1668
spurge flax1678
wood laurel1728
mezereum1754
Daphnad1847
spurge Daphne1872
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific barks
mezereona1500
cortex1680
Jesuits' bark1694
tellicherry bark1734
slippery elm1748
white cinnamon1751
mezereum1754
canella1756
royal bark1794
cinchona1800
rohun bark1820
false Winter's bark1830
calisaya bark1837
mezereon bark1837
Suriname bark1844
carony bark1853
Honduras bark1881
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2065/2 Mezereon, or Mesereum, spurge-olive, a species of thymelæa, which agrees in virtues with the spurge-laurel.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) The mezereum has not the power of curing the venereal disease in any one stage.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 531 Mezereum bark.
1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 395 Thymeleaceæ. (Mezereum Family.)
1954 Sci. Monthly Feb. 117/1 The correct vernacular name for Daphne mezereum, also, is ‘mezereon’, not ‘mezereum’.
1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler Messel iv. 52 (table) Survey of the plant families found in Messel..Thymelaeaceae (mezereum fam.)..Nyssaceae (tuperlo fam.).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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