| 单词 | white poppy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite poppy white poppy n. the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum; (also) a variety of this having white flowers and seeds, P. somniferum var. album (cf. black poppy n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d)). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding drug or narcotic > [noun] > opium poppy white poppyOE chesbollc1420 opium poppy1849 OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) liv. 98 Genim þysse wyrte wos ðe Grecas moetorias & Romane papauer album nemnað & Engle hwit popig hatað. c1225 Worcester Glosses to Old Eng. Herbarium in Anglia (1928) 52 20 (MED) [Hwytpopig, papauer] Hwitpopi. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 72 (MED) R[ecipe] þe poudre of rose leues..þe seed of hennebane..opij teebaici, i. white popi. 1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick 458 Take Gromel seed, and the seed of Saxifrage, of each one dragme, the seeds of..white Poppies, of Melons [etc.]. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 739 White Poppy is now cultivated in the plains of India. 1954 A. A. Forsyth Brit. Poisonous Plants 23 The symptoms..are similar to those after poisoning by opium and white poppy. 2006 A. Murphy-Hiscock Way of Green Witch v. 119 It is the white poppy that is toxic and the source of opium. < as lemmas |
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