单词 | pinhoen |
释义 | pinhoenn. Now rare. pinhoen oil n. an oil produced from either of two kinds of physic nut, Jatropha curcas and J. multifidus, used as a purgative and emetic; also oil of pinhoen. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > oils and oily preparations oil of rosesa1398 oil (of) hypericon1471 oil of philosophers1547 almond oil1560 oil of tile1634 brick oil1656 rosat1674 philosophical oil1750 oleosaccharum1757 oil of wintergreen1827 wintergreen oil1843 pinhoen oil1846 gaultheria oil1848 carap oilc1865 pulza oil1866 niaouli1993 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 280 In like manner Curcas multifidus produces a purgative oil called Pinhoen, under which name it reaches Europe from South America. 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 520/2 C[urcas] multifidus, a shrub, native of the tropical parts of America,..yields a purgative acrid oil, called Oil of Pinhoen. 1884 W. Dymock Vegetable Mat. Med. W. India iv. 573 Jatropha multifida... The seeds are powerfully purgative and emetic. In Brazil an oil called ‘Pinhoen’ is extracted from them and is used as an emetic. 1994 H. M. Burkill Useful Plants W. Trop. Afr. (ed. 2) II. 91 Jatropha curcas... Commercial names for the oil are: seed oil; hell oil, pinhoen oil, pulza oil, pulgueira oil, purging-nut oil, curcas oil. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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