| 单词 | rhine berry bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhine berry bush The fruit of the common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica; (also) the plant itself (more fully †rhine berry bush) . ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > buckthorn bush or berry rhamna1425 rhamnus1562 buckthorn1578 Rhine berry1578 hart-thorn1607 purging thorn1653 purging buckthorn1706 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xxx. 697 The fruite of the same thorne [sc. buckthorn] is called..in English, Rheyn beries, because there is much of them founde alongst the riuer Rhene. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xvii. 1155 In lowe Dutch they call the fruit or berries Rhijnbesien, that is, as though you should say in Latine, Baccæ Rhenanæ, in English, Rheinberries. 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 153 Aurora..painting with her more lively colours the Rheineberry or full-ripe Cherry. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Rhamnus,..the Rhein-berry Bush. 1856 T. W. C. Edwards Eton Lat. Gram. (ed. 28) 111 (note) To these masculines add..rhāmnŭs, rheinberry bush. 1912 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 19 124 Thus the purple juice of the fresh, ripe berries of the Buckthorn, Rhineberry, or Hartshorn (R. cathartica L.) treated with an alkali is the source of the ‘sap-green’ or ‘bladder-green’ of commerce. 1992 J. Eastman Bk. Forest & Thicket 43 Other names [for common buckthorn]: European buckthorn (properly R. frangula), hartsthorn, waythorn, rhineberry. 1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 612 R. cathartica..drupes (Rhine berries) medic. & source of artist's pigment ‘sap green’. < as lemmas |
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