| 单词 | bastard ipecacuanha |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbastard ipecacuanha bastard ipecacuanha n. any of several plants having roots with purgative properties; spec. †(a) any of several North American horse gentians (genus Triosteum), esp. T. perfoliatum (obsolete); (b) blood flower, Asclepias curassavica (now rare). ΚΠ 1764 W. Burchell Catal. Trees, Shrubs, Plants, & Flowers 59 Triosteospermum, Fever-weed. Doctor Tinckar's Weed, or Bastard Ipecacuanha. 1770 C. Milne Bot. Dict. at Contortæ The false, or bastard ipecacuanha, a poisonous root brought out of America.., is the root of a species of swallow-wort, termed by Linnæus asclepias carassavica. 1817 W. P. C. Barton Veg. Materia Medica U.S. I. 63 Triosteum perfoliatum is a mild cathartic, and it is for this virture that the plant is here noticed... One of the common vulgar names also, Bastard Ipecacuanha, indicates the well-known emetic power which it unquestionably possesses. 1847 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 19 19 The Bastard Ipecacuanha is a plant..abounding in a milky sap, bearing umbels of bright red flowers to be met with at all periods of the year. 2012 U. Quattrocchi CRC World Dict. Medicinal & Poisonous Plants 437/1 Asclepias curassavia... In English: bastard ipecacuanha, blood flower,..red-head,..wild ipecacuanha. < as lemmas |
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