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单词 palma christi
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Palma Christin.

Brit. /ˌpalmə ˈkrɪsti/, /ˌpɑːmə ˈkrɪsti/, U.S. /ˌpɑlmə ˈkrɪsti/
Forms: late Middle English– Palma Christi, 1500s Palmus Christi. Also with lower-case initial(s).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin palma Christi.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin palma Christi castor oil plant, also gromwell (from 14th cent. in British sources), species of orchid (1583 in a translation of Dodoens (compare quot. 1578 at sense 2), from 1597 in British sources (see quot. 1597 at sense 2)), lit. ‘palm or hand of Christ’, from the palmate shape of the leaves (in sense 1) or tubers (in sense 2) < classical Latin palma palm n.2 + Christī , genitive of Christus Christ n. and int. Compare palmchrist n. N.E.D. (1904) gives only the pronunciation (pæ·lmă kri·sti) /ˈpælmə/ /ˈkrɪstɪ/.
1. Either of two plants with palmately lobed leaves: (a) an unidentified medicinal herb, perhaps cut-leaved dead-nettle, Lamium hybridum (obsolete); (b) the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis.
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c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 252 For to make a woman abyll to conceyue, Take and yef hyr pouder of palma Christi þat is new and yunge.
a1500 Agnus Castus (Laud) (1950) 197 Palma Christi is an herbe þat me cleputh mannes moderwort..þis herbe hath leues lich to blyndenetele..a stalk þat is foursquare..litel reed flours..and he growith in gardyns and in feldes.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 251/2 Palmus christi an herbe.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.vij Ricinus is called..in english Palma Christi.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxix. 355 The seede of Palma Christi is hoate and drie in the thirde degree.
1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 636 Whether the Oyl expressed out of the Plant Ricinus or Palma Christi, be used by the Indians to keep them from Vermin?
a1687 E. Waller Battle of Summer-Islands i, in Wks. (1729) 86 The Palma-Christi and the fair papà,..In half the circle of the hasty year Project a shade, and lovely fruits do wear.
1776 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 348 The ricinus, or palma-christi; the dwarf rosebay, rhododendron..grow to the size of very large trees in warm climates.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. vii. 324 We applied an embrocation of the leaves of the palma Christi, or castor-oil nut.
1868 A. Gray Field, Forest, & Garden Bot. 295 Ricinus, Palma-Christi, Castor-Oil Plant..R. communis, the only species.
1937 Z. N. Hurston Their Eyes were watching God ii. 26 The cooling palma christi leaves that Janie had bound about her grandma's head with a white rag had wilted.
1992 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants (1994) 1001/2 R[icinus]communis L. Castor oil plant; palma Christi; castor bean plant.
2. Any of several orchids (species of Dactylorhiza) having palmate tubers. Obsolete. rare.
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man orchis1670
monkey orchisa1678
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military orchis1784
male orchis1785
ram's horn1832
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lix. 225 Of Royall Standergrasse or Palma Christi. [Three kinds described.]
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 170 Roiall Satyrion or finger Orchis, is called of the Latines Palma Christi.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Palma Christi. Mas & fœmina, i.e. Orchis Palmata.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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