| 单词 | devil's apple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil's apple devil's apple n. †(a) the bitter fruit of colocynth, Citrullus colocynthis (also called bitter apple) (obsolete rare); (b) North American thorn apple, Datura stramonium, which contains toxic and hallucinogenic alkaloids (now historical). [In sense (a) probably after German Teufelsapfel colocynth (1733 or earlier). With sense (b) compare French pomme du diable (1801 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun] > thorn-apple or brugmansia thorn-apple1578 thorny apple1578 floripondio1604 stramonium1682 burn-weed1756 devil's apple1759 stinkweed1804 jimsonweed1812 Brugmansia1822 stramony1842 angel's trumpet1866 metel1887 mad-apple1892 1759 W. Lewis tr. C. Neumann Chem. Wks. 351 Colocynth or Coloquintida is the fruit of a plant of the Gourd kind, growing plentifully in Persia, differing from other Gourds..in the quality of the fruit, which is so intensely bitter as to have received the names of Gall of the Earth, Bitter Apple, Devil's Apple, &c. 1811 Rural Visiter 7 Jan. 124/2 (note) The root of Stramonium..Vulgarly called Apple Pera, Devil's Apple, and Stink Weed. 1916 M. E. Parsons Wild Flowers Calif. (new ed.) 97 This plant is also called ‘mad-apple’, ‘apple of Peru’, and ‘Devil's apple’. 1999 E. Small & P. M. Catling Canad. Medicinal Crops 106/2 The devil is commemorated in numerous names of plants that have been used medicinally..: devil's apple (Datura stramonium L.), devil's bit (Liatris squarrulosa Michx., and Scabiosa succisa L.), [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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