| 释义 |
‖ pituri|ˈpɪtjʊərɪ|
Also pitury, pitery, pitcher(r)y, -chiri, -churie, pitjuri, pidgery, pedgery, bedgery.
[Native name.]
The native name of an Australian shrub, Duboisia Hopwoodii (family Solanaceæ), the leaves and twigs of which are chewed by the natives as a narcotic. Also attrib.
1863Proc. Roy. Soc. Van Diemen's Land Apr. 1 (Morris) ‘Pitcherry’, a narcotic plant brought by King, the explorer, from the interior of Australia, where it is used by the natives to produce intoxication. 1883F. M. Bailey Synopsis Queensland Flora 350 Pitury of the natives..chewed by the natives as the white man does the tobacco. 1883G. W. Rusden Hist. Australia I. ii. 101 A shrub called pidgery by the natives. 1889C. Lumholtz Cannibals (1890) 49 Pituri is highly valued as a stimulant. 1931I. L. Idriess Lasseter's Last Ride (1933) xvii. 137 Old Warts took from behind his ear a half-chewed plug of pituri, made from the pituri shrub. 1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal in Wild Austral. xix. 123 They [sc. the natives] use the pitjuri leaf—which they are also so fond of chewing—poisoning the little-used water-holes with leaves picked from the plant, enough to cause staggers but not death, and then going out and killing the drunken game. 1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xiv. 102 Finally one by one the pituri-chewers become stupefied, rolling over and sleeping through day and night. 1964Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 25 Oct. 3/1 We tossed our swags into the station land rover..for a two-day run from the station out to Allawonga Springs and the pituri country. 1967New Scientist 27 Apr. 226/1 Even the primitive Australian Aborigine has found a pleasurable weed—pitery—which contains nornicotine.
Hence ˈpiturine Chem. (see quot. 1895).
1890Pall Mall G. 13 Sept. 7/1 The actions of nicotine and piturine are in every respect identical. 1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Piturine, a volatile liquid alkaloid prepared from the leaves and branches of the Australian plant Pituri. |