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单词 indian tobacco
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Indian tobacco
Indian tobacco n. any of several North American plants used in a similar way to tobacco; esp. Lobelia inflata (family Campanulaceae), an erect, usually branched herb bearing racemes of bluish-violet or white flowers, containing the alkaloid lobeline, which has a similar effect to nicotine (also called pukeweed).
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Indian tobaccoa1618
pukeweed1830
lobelia1849
a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1129 (That which now no Ingle wants) Indian Tobacco.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 126 A running vine, bearing a small berry, and a round leaf, which..the fishermen called poke; it is known to the hunters by the name of Indian tobacco.
1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 55 Lobelia inflata... Indian tobacco.
1830 J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia 470 They [sc. the earliest Swedish settlers] called the mullein plant the Indian tobacco; they tied it round their arms and feet, as a cure when they had the ague.
1851 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. (ed. 2) §924 Lobelia inflata, Indian Tobacco..is used medicinally as a sedative, expectorant, and anti~spasmodic.
1926 Amer. Mercury July 329/1 When he was four years old he discovered that lobelia, or Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata ),..if chewed, induced vomiting.
1949 Amer. Speech 24 110/1 Indian tobacco, Rabbit tobacco (a species of weed often rolled into home- made cigarettes, especially by boys trying to learn to smoke).
2001 Nat. Health Sept. 100/2 Or consider the herb Lobelia (Lobelia inflata), known as Indian tobacco, recommends Olarsch.
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Indian tobacco
Indian tobacco n. (a) Lobelia inflata of North America, used medicinally, and having properties similar to those of tobacco; (b) Indian hemp, Cannabis indica (see hemp n.).extracted from tobaccon.
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