单词 | black poppy |
释义 | > as lemmasblack poppy black poppy n. [after classical Latin nigrum papāver] a variety of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, with purple flowers and dark seeds; cf. white poppy n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(b)(ii). ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 242 Of the commune [popy], som is whyte, and..sum is blak..blak popy is good..in medicynes. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 230 (MED) Tak burgenus of popeler..blak pope, & leues of mandrake, [etc.]. 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. Oiii Opium, The iuyce of black Poppie dried, colde and drie in the fourth degree, stupefactiue, and mortificatiue. 1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis xii. 21/1 The head of a black poppy being wounded (gasht) distilleth Opium, which hath the power to make men sleep. 1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents i. vii. 21 The Turks take Opium..without any Preparation, it being merely the Juice of black Poppy, dried in the Sun, without any purification. 1878 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 22 59 The plants I saw were not the black poppy, but variously coloured, red, purple, &c., and apparently very healthy plants. 1998 Times (Nexis) 21 Nov. Last year, out of 15 square metres of black poppies, there was not one seedhead left at the end of the season. < as lemmas |
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