| 单词 | quassia cup |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquassia cup quassia cup n. now historical a drinking cup made of quassia wood; cf. bitter-cup n. at bitter adj. and n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > wooden rabbit1685 coga1689 sapling-cup1851 quassia cup1856 bidon1867 1856 C. R. Gilman Lect. Materia Medica (ed. 2) 457 Quassia Cups have of late been much used. They give the Quassia bitter to water in a few moments. 1884 C. F. Millspaugh Amer. Medicinal Plants (1892) 133 The West-Indian Jamaica Quassia or Bitter Ash.., noted for its extreme and lasting bitter wood, so largely used in commerce for the manufacture of Quassia-cups. 1968 News (Frederick, Maryland) 24 Oct. c6/8 A quassia cup..was an old-fashioned remedy that people had for everything from rheumatism through brain fever. < as lemmas |
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