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单词 pinhoen
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pinhoenn.

Brit. /pɪnˈjəʊn/, U.S. /pɪnˈjoʊn/
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese pinhão.
Etymology: < Brazilian Portuguese pinhão (1648 or earlier in a post-classical Latin text), specific use of Portuguese pinhão pine nut (15th cent. as pinhom and pinhõoes , plural) < Spanish piñon piñon n. Compare pinhão-do-brasil (1648 or earlier as pinhoes do Brasil , plural, in a post-classical Latin text; now usually pinhão-do-paraguai or pinhão-de-purga ). Compare earlier pignon n.1, piñon n., pinyon n.The final -n may reflect the original Portuguese nasalized vowel.
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.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > oils and oily preparations
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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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