| 单词 | winter's bark tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWinter's bark tree 1. (a) The pungent aromatic bark of a South American evergreen shrub or small tree, Drimys winteri (family Winteraceae), currently used as a spice for its peppery flavour thought to resemble that of cinnamon, and formerly valued as an antiscorbutic and stimulant; (b) (more fully Winter's bark tree) the tree producing this bark, which has leathery, lanceolate leaves, reddish shoots, and clusters of white jasmine-scented flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for scurvy > plant-derived black cinnamon1584 Winter's bark1622 Winter's cinnamon1673 Winteran bark1694 Magellan barka1769 Magellanic bark1775 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > Winter's bark tree black cinnamon1584 Winter's bark1622 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxxvi. 88 The barke of this tree, hath the savour of all kinde of Spices together, most comfortable to the stomacke, and held to be better then any Spice whatsoever;..a learned Country-man of ours, Doctor Turner, hath written of it, by the name of Winters barke. 1664 W. Drage Physical Nosonomy 298 Leaves of Laurel and Winter-Bark snuft up the Nose. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Preface p. ix A description of the Winter-bark-Tree growing up and down Patagonia. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. iv. iv. 74/2 White Cinamon, to which some give the Name..Winter's Bark [Fr. écorce de Wintherus], or Winter's Cinamon. 1742 Smith's Compl. Housewife (ed. 11) 357 For the Rheumatism. Take one handful of garden scurvygrass pick'd,..half an ounce of winter bark sliced. 1776 Med. Observ. & Inquiries V. 46 The Winter's Bark-tree, Winterana Aromatica. 1844 J. D. Hooker Let. Sept. in C. Darwin Corr. (1987) III. 58 I do not suppose that any trees in the N. Temperate zone have the range in Latitude at the level of the sea that the Beech or Winters Bark have in S. America. 1887 C. F. Millspaugh Amer. Medicinal Plants 12-2 The South American Winter's Bark, from Wintera aromatica, Murr., is used in Brazil as an aromatic tonic, especially though in colic. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal (1967) II. 850/1 Winter's Bark..or Matias bark, is the product of a small shrubby tree, found on the coast of Venezuela and Columbia. 1994 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 2 Jan. 57 Winter's Bark (Drimys winteri) is a useful evergreen tree, with long glossy leaves, and clusters of white, star-shaped flowers in May. 2007 G. Allen Herbalist in Kitchen 276 Winter's bark has been used as a substitute for cinnamon. In Brazil and Mexico, it is powdered and used as a table condiment. < as lemmas |
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