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单词 goat's-bane
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goat's-bane
goat's-bane n. Obsolete a plant that is especially poisonous to goats, (originally) Rhododendron luteum or R. ponticum (family Ericaceae), (in later use) wolf's bane, Aconitum lycoctonum (family Ranunculaceae). Wolf's bane was formerly sometimes known as Aconitum tragoctonum, ‘goat-killing aconite’. [Originally after classical Latin aegolethron (Pliny) < Hellenistic Greek αἰγόλεθρον, lit. ‘destruction to goats’.]
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. xiii. 94 There is an hearbe called Ægolethron in Greeke, which killeth horses verely, but Goats most of all, feeding thereupon; and therefore it tooke that name.]
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) v. 909 The honey is venomous..in the flowers of Goats-bane [L. ægolethri] fading with the wetness of the spring, for then the flowers contract that hurtfull venome.
1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. 145/2 Goat's-bane, see Aconitum tragoctonum.
1889 Cent. Dict. Goat's-bane, the plant wolf's bane, Aconitum Lycoctonum.
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