单词 | belladonna |
释义 | belladonnan. 1. Botany. The specific name of the Deadly Nightshade or Dwale ( Atropa belladonna), occasionally used as English. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > poisonous bush or tree > [noun] > deadly nightshade nightshadeOE dwale14.. garden nightshade1576 deadly nightshade1578 sleeping nightshade1578 belladonna1597 death's herb1598 sleepy nightshade1611 banewort1861 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 270 In English Dwale or sleeping Nightshade: the Venetians and Italians call it Bella dona. 1758 R. Pultney in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 62 Bella-donna is the name, which the Italians, and particularly the Venetians, apply to this plant; and Mr. Ray observes, that it is so called because the Italian ladies make a cosmetic from the juice. 1851 E. Hamilton Flora Homœopath. iii. 64 Belladonna, because it was employed by Leucota, a famous poisoner of Italy, to destroy the beautiful women. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 488 Belladonna is cultivated for medicinal use at Hitchin. 2. Medicine. The name, in the pharmacopœia, of the leaves and root of this plant, and of the drug thence prepared, the active principle of which is the alkaloid atropine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > alkaloids belladonna1788 bebeerine1851 sparteine1851 physostigmine1864 bebeeria1874 pilocarpine1875 hydrastine1876 atropine1877 eserine1879 homatropine1880 ergocryptine1944 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant hyssopc1000 sionc1000 tunhoofc1000 poppyOE camomilea1300 orobusa1398 tithymala1400 tutsana1400 Thapsiac1400 melissa?a1425 hallelujahc1425 turmeric1538 succory1541 balin1546 English treacle1548 treacle mustard1548 rhabarb1558 Thlaspi1562 treacle clover1562 holy herb1567 lungwort1578 solanum1578 lightwort1587 neezing wort1591 Alexander's Foot1597 burst-wort1597 symphonia1597 wound-herb1597 leper's herb1600 all bones1633 schoenanth1633 nip1651 wound-shrub1659 hermodact1678 jusquiam1727 Algerian tea1728 Australian tea1728 strongback1739 silphium1753 belladonna1788 foxglove1801 ledum1822 yercum1826 lungs of oak1856 strong man's weed1864 conium1866 short-long1871 fever grass1875 1788 Edinb. New Dispensatory (1791) ii. 145 The belladonna taken internally has been highly recommended in cancer. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 109 Belladonna is said by homœopathists to act as a preventative of scarlet fever. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 250 Belladonna is not a hypnotic. Compounds C1. attributive. ΚΠ 1856 Med. Times & Gaz. XIII. 513 Case of poisoning from the application of belladonna plaster to the skin. 1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye iv. 126 A fold of lint..kept moist with..the belladonna lotion. 1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 486/2 The clinical history of a case of belladonna poisoning. 1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 486/2 The patient..had eaten..about thirty belladonna berries. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I Belladonna-leaves... B. plaster. 1896 Daily News 10 Sept. 2/6 Belladonna poisoning. 1896 Daily News 10 Sept. 2/6 The belladonna liniment. 1968 Times 3 Dec. 10/8 Drugs of the belladonna group. C2. belladonna lily n. Amaryllis Belladonna, a native of the Cape of Good Hope. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > amaryllis lily daffodil1733 belladonna lily1734 lily asphodel1753 Mexican lily1760 amaryllis1785 1734 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar (ed. 3) 140 The roots of the Guernsey and Belladonna Lillies. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxi. 499 The belladonna is a yet more handsome lily. 1866 T. Moore in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 48 The name Belladonna Lily was given..from the charmingly blended red and white of the perianth, resembling the complexion of a beautiful woman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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