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velvet-leaf
[f. velvet n. 4 b.]
1. The tropical shrub Cissampelos Pareira, the root and bark of which are employed medicinally.
1707Sloane Jamaica I. 200 Velvet-Leaf. This has a round, whitish, wooddy stalk..having several leaves,..very thick set with a whitish down, or soft hair, feeling to the touch as velvet, whence its name. 1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 397 The Velvet-Leaf is looked upon as an excellent diuretic. 1866Treas. Bot. 288/2 The most important plant of the genus is the Velvet Leaf, C. Pareira, a native of the West Indies, Central America, and India. 1871Garrod Mat. Med. (ed. 3) 168 Pareira Root. The dried root of Cissampelos Pareira, or Velvet leaf.
2. The tree-mallow, Lavatera arborea, or a leaf of this.
1728E. Smith Compl. Housew. (1750) 312 Take velvet-leaves, wipe them clean, chop them small,..and boil them gently, till they are crisp. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 614 Tree Mallow, or Velvet-leaf. 1863Prior Plant-n. 232.
3. (See quots.)
(a)1856A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 68 Abutilon Avicennæ, Velvet-Leaf. 1866Treas. Bot. 1207/2 Velvet-leaf,..Sida Abutilon.
(b)1891Cent. Dict. s.v. Tournefortia, T. Argentea is sometimes cultivated under the name of East Indian velvet-leaf. |