| 单词 | moon-plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoon-plant moon-plant n. the soma plant (see soma n.1 2). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding intoxicating drink > [noun] > soma plant soma plant1785 moon-plant1798 hom1855 haoma1890 1798 H. Colebrooke in Asiatick Researches 5 363 One, who has drunk spirituous liquors, should traverse water up to his throat, and drink as much expressed juice of the moon plant, as he can take up in the hollow of both hands. 1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 475 The soma or moon-plant is a round smooth twining plant, peculiar to the Aravalli Hills [etc.]. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 205/2 The soma, an intoxicating drink prepared from the juice of the Asclepias acida, a kind of milk-weed, (sometimes called the moon-plant). 1978 Current Anthropol. 19 549/2 The intoxicant called soma, probably a hallucinogen extracted from an agaric, is a weakness of all the Vedic deities, who delight in this so-called moon-plant juice. < as lemmas |
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