| 单词 | yellow bark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow bark yellow bark n. [compare scientific Latin cortex chinae flavus, lit. ‘yellow quina bark’ (1792 or earlier)] now historical any type of cinchona bark that is yellow in colour; spec. (more fully royal yellow bark) that obtained from the tree Cinchona calisaya, considered particularly valuable for the treatment of malaria (= calisaya bark n. at calisaya n.); cf. red bark n. 1. ΘΚΠ 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 > cinchona tree or bark Peruvian bark1663 quinquina1681 Jesuits' Bark1704 quinaquina1708 quinquina1740 cinchona1742 quill bark1742 grey bark1781 red bark1782 bark-tree1783 yellow bark1794 cinchona-bark1811 crown bark1823 Loxa bark1825 Suriname bark1844 Lima bark1855 quinine tree1855 1794 J. Relph Inq. Med. Efficacy Yellow Bark 59 This is now known in London by the name of Yellow Bark. 1794 J. Relph Inq. Med. Efficacy Yellow Bark 62 It will be the means of avoiding confusion, if, in future, this bark should be denominated the Royal Yellow Bark. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 173/2 The Carthagena yellow barks both contain quinia, but in less quantity than the Calisaya bark. 1903 Monthly Homœopathic Rev. 1 Dec. 758 Redwood distinguishes the variety C. Calisaya vera (Wedd.) as that which formerly yielded the yellow, or true Calisaya bark of English commerce, and this was one of the species of bark most rich in quinine, sometimes distinguished as Royal yellow bark, or China Regia. 2004 M. Honigsbaum & M. Willcox in M. Willcox et al. Trad. Medicinal Plants & Malaria ii. 97 Cinchona pubescens (red bark) contains near equal amounts of cinchonine, cinchonidine, and quinine... C[inchona] calisaya (yellow bark) contains all four alkaloids. < as lemmas |
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