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单词 dogbane
释义

dogbanen.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡbeɪn/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌbeɪn/, /ˈdɑɡˌbeɪn/
Forms:

α. 1500s–1800s dogs-bane, 1700s– dog's-bane.

β. 1700s– dogbane.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on Latin lexical items. Etymons: dog n.1, bane n.1
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of dog n.1 + bane n.1; in β. forms < dog n.1 + bane n.1; partly after classical Latin apocynon, in post-classical Latin also apocynum ( < Hellenistic Greek ἀπόκυνον (Dioscorides): see apocyneous adj.), and partly after scientific Latin Cynoctonum ( Linnaeus Systema naturae (ed. 13, 1791) 443; < Hellenistic Greek κυνοκτόνον (Dioscorides), use as noun of neuter of κυνοκτόνος killing dogs < κυνο- cyno- comb. form + -κτόνος slaying: see myoctonic adj.).
Now chiefly North American.
Any of numerous plants which are poisonous to dogs; (in later use) spec. any of the plants constituting the family Apocynaceae, which includes the milkweeds (genus Asclepias) and the North American genus Apocynum. Also with distinguishing word indicating a particular species.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 755 Dogs bane is a deadly and dangerous plant, especially to fower footed beasts.
1648 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs (ed. 2) xi. 264 Medea is the name of a poysonable herbe..called..in English dogs-bane; but our dogs-bane hath no such strangulative qualitie.
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) Dogs-bane, an Herb so call'd because it kills Dogs.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Silk-grass, a name used for two very different genuses of plants, the aloe and dog's bane.
1854 J. King Amer. Eclectic Dispensatory 226 Apocynum androsaemifolium... This plant, likewise called Dogsbane, Milk-weed, etc., is found in nearly all parts of the United States.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Dogbanes, a name given by Lindley to the Apocynaceæ. Dog's-bane, a name for Apocynum; also Aconitum Cynoctonum.
1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iv. iii. 578 In Apocynum androsæmifolium (dog's-bane) the anthers converge towards the nectaries.
1908 A. R. Harding Ginseng & other Med. Plants (Rev. ed.) 296 Velvet dogbane (A. pubescens..), which is common from Virginia to Illinois.
1953 Florida Entomologist 36 95 Flowers of dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium L.) trapped hundreds of Mesograpta marginata,..catching these small syrphids by their proboscises.
2006 P. D. Irwin Colorado's Best Wildflower Hikes III. xxxiv. 188 Near slabs of granitic rock, droopy-leaved spreading dogbane dangling dainty blushed bells.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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