| 单词 | vegetable ethiops |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable ethiops vegetable ethiops n. now historical and rare an impure charcoal made by calcining the seaweed bladderwrack ( Fucus vesiculosus), used medicinally in the treatment of various disorders including scrofula; cf. ethiops n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > charcoal > [noun] coalOE charcoalc1400 lind-coal14.. black coal1525 small coal1591 beech-coal1607 sallow charcoal1615 brier-coal1626 wood-coal1653 withy-cole1657 chark1708 vegetable ethiops1752 biochar1995 1752 tr. R. Russell Diss. Use Sea-Water 88 Precipitated Sulphur ten Grains, Vegetable Æthiops [L. æthiop. vegetabil.] half a Scruple..Make a Powder, to be taken Morning and Night. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 20 350 By calcining this plant [sc. Fucus vesiculosus] in the open air, the same author made from it a very black salt powder, which he called vegetable æthiops, a medicine much in use as a resolvent and deobstruent. 1910 A. C. Wootton Chron. Pharmacy I. xiii. 351 Vegetable ethiops was the ashes of fucus vesiculosus which were given in scrofulous complaints and in goitre before iodine was discovered. < as lemmas |
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