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‖ taraxacum|təˈræksəkəm|
[med.L. from Arabic, ultimately Persian. The Synonymia Arabo-Latina of Gerard of Cremona (died 1189) has ‘Tarasacon, species cichorei’. This appears to have been a corruption or misreading of the Arabic name ṭarakhshaqōq or ṭarkhshaqōq, itself according to the Burhan-i-Kāti (native Persian lexicon), originally an arabicized form of the Persian talkh chakōk ‘bitter herb’.
Many corrupt forms of the name (due chiefly to misreading of unpointed similar consonants in a foreign word) are given by Ibn Baithar. ‘The reading ṭarakhshaqōn, with {arnunfull} for ﻕ, appears in the glossary of Ibn al Hashsha on the work of Razi’ (Devic in Littré Suppl.), and appears to be the source of Gerarde's tarasacon.]
a. Bot. Name of the genus of Composite plants (by Linnæus included in Leontodon) including the dandelion (T. Dens-leonis, T. officinale, or Leontodon Taraxacum).
b. Pharm. A drug prepared from the root of the dandelion, used as a tonic and in liver complaints.
1706Phillips (ed. 6), Taraxacum or Taraxacon, (Gr.) the Herb Dandelion, or Sow-Thistle. 1845Budd Dis. Liver 36 Some principles of rhubarb and taraxacum might pass off in it likewise. 1857G. Bird Urin. Deposits (ed. 5) 436 Taraxacum, a popular cholagogue, owes its diuretic action..to a similar cause. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 425 Diuretic properties have also been ascribed to taraxacum. |