| 单词 | myrobalan tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmyrobalan tree 1. The astringent plumlike fruit of any of various tropical trees of the genus Terminalia (family Combretaceae), esp. T. bellirica and T. chebula, formerly used medicinally but now chiefly in dyeing and tanning (also †myrobalan plum); a tree bearing such fruit (also myrobalan tree). Also: the fruit of the tropical tree Phyllanthus emblica (family Euphorbiaceae), used in a similar way; the tree itself.emblic myrobalan: see emblic n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > fruit, seed, or flower used in dyeing > [noun] > myrobalan or belleric fruit myrobalana1398 chebule1599 belleric1758 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > other types of white plumc1330 bullacea1375 myxe?1440 prunelloa1450 bullace-fruit1530 horse plum1530 plum1530 wheat-plum1538 wheaten plum1542 choke-plum1556 pear plum1573 finger plum1577 scad1577 skeg1601 merchant1602 bullace-plum1608 malacadonian1608 prune plum1613 date plum1626 mussel plum1626 amber plum1629 black plum1629 primordian1629 queen mother1629 winter crack1629 myrobalan1630 Christian1651 Monsieur's plum1658 cinnamon-plum1664 date1664 primordial1664 Orleans1674 mirabelle1706 myrobalan plum1708 Mogul1718 mussel1718 Chickasaw plum1760 blue gage1764 magnum bonum1764 golden drop1772 beach-plum1785 sweet plum1796 winesour1836 wild plum1838 quetsch1839 egg-plum1859 Victoria1860 cherry plum1866 bladder-plum1869 prune1872 sour plum1874 Carlsbad plum1885 horse-jug1886 French plum1939 α. β. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas 8264 Mirablane. [p. 8510 Myrabalane, p. 8514 Murobolane.]c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) ii. 13 Conservs,..ponadoes, marablane [etc.].a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 212v Some trees bereþ ferst swete fruyt and beþ afterward bitter and sour, as trees of myrabolanes. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 324 (MED) Take mirabolanorum, i. mirabolanes, indorum, belliricorum, emblicorum, [etc.]. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 85 (MED) Take of Merabole, galengan. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 68 Myrabolones, callyd Kebuli. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ix. f. 44v A greate multitude of certeine beastes..creping as thicke as antes aboute the myrobolane trees. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 65v, in Bulwarke of Defence Who so vse to eate often of Myrobalans being condite, shall not seeme olde, sayth Mesue. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A kinde of mirabolane plum. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Myrobalan citrin, the yellow, or Citron Myrobalan. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. ii. sig. I2 She melts Like a Myrobalane ! View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §644 There be Fruits, that are Sweet before they be Ripe; As Myrabolanes. 1678 W. Salmon tr. Pharmacopœia Londinensis 136/2 The five sorts of Myrobolans..the Emblick purge Flegm and Water. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais ii. xiv A Boxfull of conserves, of round Myrabolan plums, called Emblicks. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 141 The Indian Myrobalans are small long Fruit, of the Size of a Child's Finger End. 1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 403 Distinguished..by its round figure; and called the belleric Myrobalan. 1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 267 The infusion of Myrobalans from the East Indies, differed from the other astringent infusions. 1883 Madras Mail 5 Dec. 21/1 It is only when the ruling price of myrabolams is too high that inferior tanning materials are in request. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 205 Indian produce, of which cotton, linseed, and myrabolums formed the staple. 1969 T. C. Thorstensen Pract. Leather Technol. ix. 142 The popularity of myrobalans in the sole leather industry is attributed to the characteristic of the material to ferment and produce acids. 1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) xi. 317 Phyllanthus emblica, aonla or myrobalan, a monoecious tree of India, has very acid fruit containing 1.5 per cent vitamin C. 1996 R. Mistry Fine Balance (1997) iii. 141 He collected the fruit of the myrobalan tree to make tannin solution. < as lemmas |
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