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单词 syrian mastic
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Syrian (herb) mastic
a. Either of two plants of the western Mediterranean formerly much used in medicine, esp. to induce sneezing: (a) (more fully herb mastic) a kind of thyme, Thymus mastichina; (b) (more fully candy mastic, Syrian (herb) mastic) cat thyme, Teucrium marum. See also marum n. Obsolete.
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mastic thyme1640
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 544 The English and French Herbarists at this daie do call this plant Masticke or Mastiche.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 12 Marum vulgare. Hearbe Masticke.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 13 Marum Syriacum vel Creticum. The Syrian or Candye Mastick. This Candye or Syrian Marjerome.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 302 It is not yet too late to plant Slips of..Marum, Mastick, and some other Aromatick Plants.
1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Marum vulgare, the common mastich; Thymus mastichina, Linn. It is a low shrubby plant, a native of Spain, and is merely employed in medicine as an errhine.
1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 907/1 Teucrium marum,... Syrian herb mastich, Cat thyme... A very aromatic plant... Formerly much used..as a tonic, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, &c.
extracted from masticn.adj.
Syrian mastic
a. In names of plants, animals, and products actually or reputedly coming from Syria, as Syrian bear, Syrian goat, Syrian grape, Syrian mastic, Syrian oak, Syrian pear, Syrian rue, Syrian thistle, Syrian tobacco: see quots.
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1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 13 Marum Syriacum vel Creticum. The Syrian or Candye Mastick. This Candye or Syrian Marjerome, hath sundry upright stalkes.
1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) ii. 77 The Syrian Pear.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rue, Wild Syrian, Peganum.
1780 Ann. Reg., Chron. 223/2 A cluster of Syrian grapes, the largest..that ever grew in England.
1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 374 Syrian Goat... This variety is common in many parts of the East, and is distinguished by the great length of the ears.
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 357/1 The variety of thick-skinned white grape, called the Syrian.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Syrian Tobacco, the Nicotiana rustica..which furnishes the Turkish, Latakia, and some of the Asiatic tobaccoes.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 794 The Syrian Thistle, N[otobasis] syriaca,..is distinguished from other thistles by the central florets of the flower-head only being fertile.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 116 The Syrian Bear (U[rsus] Syriacus) is found on Mount Lebanon, and elsewhere in Western Asia.
extracted from Syriann.adj.
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