| 单词 | wild masterwort |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswild masterwort A plant, Peucedanum ostruthium (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)), formerly highly regarded on account of the sudorific, diuretic, and other medicinal properties of its root (which earned it the reputation of a panacea or divinum remedium), much grown in gardens and sometimes naturalized in northern Britain. Also: any of several other plants of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae) having similar properties or appearance; spec. (a) (in full English masterwort, wild masterwort) goutweed, Aegopodium podagraria (now rare); (b) (formerly more fully black masterwort) any of various plants of the genus Astrantia, esp. A. major, often grown for ornament; (c) either of two North American plants, a wild angelica, Angelica atropurpurea (also American masterwort), and the cow parsnip of North America, Heracleum sphondylium subsp. montanum ( H. lanatum).The identity of the plant referred to in quot. 1523 is uncertain. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > American or West Indian masterwort1523 hogweed1707 black root1709 many-seed1750 Martynia1753 Maranta1754 hog meat1756 iron1756 Evolvulus1764 zebra plant1826 turkey-flower1843 vriesia1843 Spanish needles1846 turkey-blossom1849 horse poison1851 St Martin's herb1860 goatweed1864 wake-robin1864 frog-bit1866 herb of St. Martin1866 pipi1866 goatweed1869 cigar-plant1961 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > cow-parsnip masterwort1523 cow-parsnip1548 rough parsnip1548 meadow parsnip1562 madnep1597 heracleum1776 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > gout-weed wild masterwort1523 ashweed1578 herb Gerard1578 gout-wort1597 jump-about1656 goat weed1758 gout-weed1776 English masterwort1866 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > masterwort masterwort1523 pellitory1544 master-root1599 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant > masterwort masterwort1523 master-root1599 1523 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 74 [Cauliculus Agrestis] meysterwort. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.ijv The seede of pilletory of Spayne called masterwurt. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 36 It were best to call it after the Duche Maisterwort. The Physicianes of Italye call it Imperatoriam. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. cix. 300 The seconde Imperatoria, or wylde Master~wort. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 474 The wilde master-wort called herbe Gerard. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 828 Astrantia nigra..may be called blacke Masterwoort. 1653 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged (1656) 155 The Root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper, and very available in al cold Griefs and Diseases both of the stomach and body. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 141 One dram of root of Masterwort. 1715 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 239 Great black Masterwort. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 168 [Imperatoria ostruthium]Masterwort. Anglis... The root is warm and aromatic, and is esteem'd a good sudorific. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 426 Angelica, American Masterwort. Blossoms greenish white. Borders of fields in moist land. 1833 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 6) ii. 172 Heracleum..lanatum..master-wort, cow parsnip. 1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 96 Astrantia, Masterwort... Hardy herbaceous perennials. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 724/2 Masterwort, English, Ægopodium. 1885 J. G. Baker Flora Eng. Lake District 111 Peucedanum Ostruthium, Koch. (Masterwort)... Used by cow-doctors in their practice, and..called Fellon-Grass. 1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds II. 42 Masterwort which in earlier..days was known as ‘the divine remedy’. 1955 Gloss. Arctic & Subarctic Terms (U.S. Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center Publ. A-105) 51/2 Masterwort, n., the cow parsnip. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 77/2 [Angelica] atropurpurea L. Great a[ngelica], alexanders, masterwort... Sometimes grown for medicinal purposes. 1992 Garden Answers Jan. 11/1 The soil beneath is often moist allowing a wider range of plants to be grown..such as..anemone, masterwort (astrantia) and violets. < as lemmas |
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