| 释义 |
‖ papoose|pəˈpuːs|
Also 7 pappouse, papouse, 8–9 pappoose.
[An Algonquin word: in Narragansett papoos, Pequot pouppous (i.e. poopoos).]
a. A North-American Indian young child.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 108 This little Pappouse travells about with his bare footed mother to paddle in the Icie Clammbankes. 1677I. Mather New Eng. (1864) 197 They thought..to make the English believe those base Papooses were of royal Progeny. 1809Kendall Trav. I. xiii. 152 From papoose, a word by which, as it is said, some of the Indians mean a child. 1865F. Parkman Champlain xii. (1875) 348 Naked pappooses screamed and ran. 1890L. D'Oyle Notches 28 Strapped in that queer contrivance in which squaws carry their papooses.
b. papoose-root, a perennial plant, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, of the family Berberidaceæ, native to eastern North America, and bearing panicles of small yellowish flowers and blue berries; the thick, twisted root was formerly used medicinally.
1815D. Drake Nat. View Cincinnati ii. 85 Poppoos root. 1843J. Torrey Flora N.Y. I. 33 Blue Cohosh. Pappoose-root... The root of this plant is in some repute as a diuretic and bitter. 1866Treas. Bot. 844/2 Papoose-root, the root of Caulophyllum thalictroides. 1943R. Peattie Great Smokies 190 The old wives of the mountains today are not averse to..giving their teething children a little papooseroot. |