单词 | palma christi |
释义 | Palma Christin. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > castor-oil plant or bean ricinusOE oil treea1425 Palma Christic1450 man's motherworta1500 tick-seed1562 tick-weed1563 finger orchis1597 kick1597 steadfast1597 palmchrist1611 oil-nut1694 oilseed1760 castor-oil bean1814 castor-bean1819 castor-oil plant1839 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > early purple orchids standengussa1400 standelworta1500 gandergoose?1550 adder's grass1551 ragwort1552 cuckoo orchis1578 fool's ballocks1578 Palma Christi1578 standergrass1578 fool's stones1597 fox-stones1597 goat's stones1597 goat stones1597 testicles1597 dead man's finger1604 long purples1604 dead man's thumb1652 man orchis1670 monkey orchisa1678 meadow orchis1753 military orchis1784 male orchis1785 ram's horn1832 lady orchis1846 dead man's hand1853 scorpion plant1866 phalaenopsid1880 walking orchid1910 soldier orchid1934 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). < n.c1450 |
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