| 单词 | perilla | 
| 释义 | Perillan.  A small genus of the family  Lamiaceae ( Labiatae), comprising annual herbs native to eastern Asia. Also ( perilla): any of several plants of this genus; esp.  P. frutescens, grown in Asia as a medicinal and culinary plant and for its oil seeds, and sometimes elsewhere for its ornamental purple leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > 			[noun]		 > other labiate plants dictamnusOE MarrubiumOE dittany1552 water horehound1578 bush basil1597 gypsy herb1726 Perilla1783 gypsywort1787 Malabar catmint1813 chia1832 nettle geranium1860 gas plant1863 coleus1885 1783    tr.  C. Linnaeus Syst. Veg. II. 437  				Perilla. The highest division of the Calyx the shortest. Stamens distant. Styles two connected. 1832    W. Roxburgh et al.  Flora Indica 		(new ed.)	 III. 25  				Style [of Colebrookia ternifolia] twice the length of the corol, half two-cleft, and the rest seems composed of two portions, as in Perilla. 1880    C. E. Bessey Bot. 498  				Several tropical species of Salvia are grown as ornaments, as are also Coleus and Perilla, from Southeastern Asia. 1900    Echo 12 June 1/5  				Geraniums, calceolarias, perilla, and coleus were not allowed to intrude their weedy presence. 1937    Oil & Colour Trades Jrnl. 91 918/2  				Perilla is indigenous to Northern India, China and Japan. 1986    Phytochemistry 25 859/1  				We have carried out GC analysis of the volatile oils of 215 strains of Perilla collected from various parts of Japan. 1995    Nichols Garden Nursery 6/2 		(advt.)	  				Perilla Purple... Used extensively in Japanese cooking, called Beefsteak plant. Compounds  perilla oil  n. 		(also perilla seed oil)	 a drying oil obtained from the seeds of  P. frutescens, used chiefly as a substitute for linseed oil and in parts of Asia as an edible oil. ΚΠ 1889    Science Sept. 200/2  				Certain lacquers have a small proportion of a drying oil (perilla oil) added to them. 1937    Oil & Colour Trades Jrnl. 91 917/1  				In this country and also in the United States perilla oil was first used in any quantity during the war. 1954    E. W. Eckey Veg. Fats & Oils xxi. 732  				Dried films of perilla oil are said to be harder and tougher than corresponding linseed oil films but to have a greater tendency to discolor upon aging. 2000    Internat. Arch. Allergy & Immunol. 122 137  				Dietary sources of alpha-linolenic acid, such as perilla seed oil, may have the capacity to inhibit the generation of leukotrienes (LTs) by leucocytes in patients with asthma. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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