mechoacann.

Brit.

/mɛˈtʃəʊəkən/, U.S.

/ˌmɛtʃəwəˈkɑn/

Forms: 1500s machoachan, 1500s mechoicana, 1500s– mechoacan, 1600s mechacan, 1600s mechoacano, 1600s mechoacauna, 1600s mechoacham, 1600s mechocan, 1600s mecoacan, 1600s mecoacano, 1600s mecoicum, 1600s–1800s mechoachan, 1700s– mechoacanna.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mechoacan.

Etymology: < Mechoacan (now Michoacán), the name of a state in west-central Mexico.In form mecoicum in 16th cent. perhaps remodelled after Latin words in -icum -ic suffix.

Now rare.

a. The whitish tuberous root of a kind of morning glory, Ipomoea macrorhiza ( I. jalapa), native to Mexico and the southern United States, which was formerly much used in medicine as a purgative; the plant itself. Also called white jalap. With distinguishing word or phrase: any of several other kinds of purgative root.black, grey, white mechoacan, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > jalap or turpeth plant or root

turpethc1400

mechoacan1577

jalap1698

mechameck1811

1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes i. f. 23^v The Mechoacan [Sp. Mechoacan] is a Roote..brought from a countrie..called Mechoacan.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. xi. f. 261 The chiefe Merchandizes that come from Mexicana..are these, Gold, Siluer,..the root Mechoicana.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 723 That plant..called Mechoacan, or Bryonie of Mexico.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 723 The Bryonie, or Mechoacan of Peru groweth vp [etc.].

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 630 Here [i.e. in Virginia] grow two Roots, which some Physicians judg, the one to be Turbith, the other Mechoacan.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 95/2 Mechacan of Peru..groweth up like hops, by help of a pole.

1704 Nat. Hist. ix, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 254 Mechoacan. A sort of blush coloured Bindweed.

1727–38 E. Chambers Cycl. Mechoacan, Mechoacanna, called also white jalap..and American scammony.

1768 W. Lewis Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 375 Mechoacan scarcely yields one sixth part so much [resin] as jalap does.

1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 785/2 As soon as jalap became known, mechoacan gradually lost its reputation.

1840 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica ii. 893 The roots of several others have been employed in medicine on account of their purgative properties; as the root called Mechoacan... Their use is now obsolete.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 121/2 Mechoacan, the root of a plant supposed to be Batatas Jalapa... A drastic purgative.

1994 J. S. Haller Med. Protestants i. 9 Mechoacan, feverroot and ague root, lemnian earth, alum, and cancerroot abounded in Virginia.

†b. The purgative drug obtained from this root. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived

scammonyc1000

lign-aloesc1374

hiera picra1379

rhubarbc1390

aloea1398

cassia fistulaa1398

coloquintidaa1398

senec1400

turpethc1400

coloquintc1420

diagrydium1436

lignum aloes1525

rhabarbarum1533

xylaloes1540

manna1541

scilla1548

hyera?1550

emblic1555

diasenna1562

colocynth1565

tragonce1575

pinyon1577

mechoacan1587

lignum aquilae1600

gamboge1615

dragon-root1621

helleborism1621

diaprune1625

alhandal1630

makinboy1652

luskard1653

diagrydiate1657

physic nut1657

aloetic1661

scammoniate1665

jalap1675

aloedary1683

coloquinto1683

Briançon manna1688

liquorice powder1712

coloquintid1732

castor oil1746

senna-tea1752

higry pigry1773

Turkey rhubarb1789

argel1803

hickery-pickery1816

cathartin1823

aloin1828

croton oil1829

jalapin1832

syrmaea1833

bryonin1836

gambogic acid1837

Podophyllum1844

podophyllin1851

geropiga1852

hicra picra1857

Montpellier turpeth1860

picra1860

tallicoona oil1866

scammonin1868

pharbitisin1873

cascara sagrada1879

senna-draught1879

tambor-oil1890

syrup of figs1897

pharbitin1899

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 413 Machoachan the drug [is called] by the name of Machoachan [sic] the countrie.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iv. ii. 81 Drugs, as Mechoacan, Kermez, Methium, [etc.].

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §36 The Qualitie of the Medicine..is..of secret Malignity, and disagreement towards Mans Bodie..; As in Scammony, Mechoacham, Antimony, &c.

1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Table Mechoacan, a purging drug brought from the Indies.

1768 W. Lewis Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 375 The dose of the mechoacan in substance is from one dram to two or more.

2. U.S. The wild potato vine, Ipomoea pandurata. Cf. mechameck n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun]

mechoacan1859

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Mechoacan (Convolvulus panduratus), a plant growing in sandy fields and on dry banks from Connecticut to Illinois and southwards. The large root is also used for medical purposes.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 410 Wild Potato Vine (Convolvulus panduratus), also known by its Indian name of Mechoachan.

1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 7 95 Ipomœa pandurata, mechoacanna, N.Y.

1993 T. Coffey Hist. & Folklore N. Amer. Wildflowers 183/1 Wild Potato-Vine. Ipomoea pandurata... Man-of-the Earth, Man-Root, Mecha-meck, Mechoacan, Mechoacanna (N.Y.).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

† mechoacan root n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1632 R. Sherwood Dict. sig. Ziv/1, in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) The (Indian) Mechoacan root, Rhamindique.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 727/1 Mechoacan root. Batatas Jalapa.

C2.

† mechoacan-ale n. Obsolete a drink medicated with mechoacan.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > specific

barley waterc1320

metheglinc1450

wood-drink1611

nectarine1628

nectar1684

mechoacan-ale1696

clary-wine1727

celery whey1761

mustard whey1769

tar-beer1857

treacle-posset1876

1696 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 2) 203 Spring and Fall purge with Mecoacan-Ale.

† mechoacan jalap n. Obsolete = sense 1a.

ΚΠ

1878 A. Gray Synoptical Flora N. Amer. II. i. 211 I[pomœ́a] Jalápa, Pursh... Apparently same as the Mexican false or Mechoacan Jalap, but root of the U.S. plant hardly purgative.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mechoacan
释义	mechoacann. Brit. /mɛˈtʃəʊəkən/, U.S. /ˌmɛtʃəwəˈkɑn/ Forms: 1500s machoachan, 1500s mechoicana, 1500s– mechoacan, 1600s mechacan, 1600s mechoacano, 1600s mechoacauna, 1600s mechoacham, 1600s mechocan, 1600s mecoacan, 1600s mecoacano, 1600s mecoicum, 1600s–1800s mechoachan, 1700s– mechoacanna. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mechoacan. Etymology: < Mechoacan (now Michoacán), the name of a state in west-central Mexico.In form mecoicum in 16th cent. perhaps remodelled after Latin words in -icum -ic suffix. Now rare. 1. a. The whitish tuberous root of a kind of morning glory, Ipomoea macrorhiza ( I. jalapa), native to Mexico and the southern United States, which was formerly much used in medicine as a purgative; the plant itself. Also called white jalap. With distinguishing word or phrase: any of several other kinds of purgative root.black, grey, white mechoacan, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > jalap or turpeth plant or root turpethc1400 mechoacan1577 jalap1698 mechameck1811 1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes i. f. 23^v The Mechoacan [Sp. Mechoacan] is a Roote..brought from a countrie..called Mechoacan. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. xi. f. 261 The chiefe Merchandizes that come from Mexicana..are these, Gold, Siluer,..the root Mechoicana. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 723 That plant..called Mechoacan, or Bryonie of Mexico. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 723 The Bryonie, or Mechoacan of Peru groweth vp [etc.]. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 630 Here [i.e. in Virginia] grow two Roots, which some Physicians judg, the one to be Turbith, the other Mechoacan. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 95/2 Mechacan of Peru..groweth up like hops, by help of a pole. 1704 Nat. Hist. ix, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 254 Mechoacan. A sort of blush coloured Bindweed. 1727–38 E. Chambers Cycl. Mechoacan, Mechoacanna, called also white jalap..and American scammony. 1768 W. Lewis Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 375 Mechoacan scarcely yields one sixth part so much [resin] as jalap does. 1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 785/2 As soon as jalap became known, mechoacan gradually lost its reputation. 1840 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica ii. 893 The roots of several others have been employed in medicine on account of their purgative properties; as the root called Mechoacan... Their use is now obsolete. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 121/2 Mechoacan, the root of a plant supposed to be Batatas Jalapa... A drastic purgative. 1994 J. S. Haller Med. Protestants i. 9 Mechoacan, feverroot and ague root, lemnian earth, alum, and cancerroot abounded in Virginia. †b. The purgative drug obtained from this root. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived scammonyc1000 lign-aloesc1374 hiera picra1379 rhubarbc1390 aloea1398 cassia fistulaa1398 coloquintidaa1398 senec1400 turpethc1400 coloquintc1420 diagrydium1436 lignum aloes1525 rhabarbarum1533 xylaloes1540 manna1541 scilla1548 hyera?1550 emblic1555 diasenna1562 colocynth1565 tragonce1575 pinyon1577 mechoacan1587 lignum aquilae1600 gamboge1615 dragon-root1621 helleborism1621 diaprune1625 alhandal1630 makinboy1652 luskard1653 diagrydiate1657 physic nut1657 aloetic1661 scammoniate1665 jalap1675 aloedary1683 coloquinto1683 Briançon manna1688 liquorice powder1712 coloquintid1732 castor oil1746 senna-tea1752 higry pigry1773 Turkey rhubarb1789 argel1803 hickery-pickery1816 cathartin1823 aloin1828 croton oil1829 jalapin1832 syrmaea1833 bryonin1836 gambogic acid1837 Podophyllum1844 podophyllin1851 geropiga1852 hicra picra1857 Montpellier turpeth1860 picra1860 tallicoona oil1866 scammonin1868 pharbitisin1873 cascara sagrada1879 senna-draught1879 tambor-oil1890 syrup of figs1897 pharbitin1899 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 413 Machoachan the drug [is called] by the name of Machoachan [sic] the countrie. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iv. ii. 81 Drugs, as Mechoacan, Kermez, Methium, [etc.]. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §36 The Qualitie of the Medicine..is..of secret Malignity, and disagreement towards Mans Bodie..; As in Scammony, Mechoacham, Antimony, &c. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Table Mechoacan, a purging drug brought from the Indies. 1768 W. Lewis Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 375 The dose of the mechoacan in substance is from one dram to two or more. 2. U.S. The wild potato vine, Ipomoea pandurata. Cf. mechameck n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] mechoacan1859 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Mechoacan (Convolvulus panduratus), a plant growing in sandy fields and on dry banks from Connecticut to Illinois and southwards. The large root is also used for medical purposes. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 410 Wild Potato Vine (Convolvulus panduratus), also known by its Indian name of Mechoachan. 1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 7 95 Ipomœa pandurata, mechoacanna, N.Y. 1993 T. Coffey Hist. & Folklore N. Amer. Wildflowers 183/1 Wild Potato-Vine. Ipomoea pandurata... Man-of-the Earth, Man-Root, Mecha-meck, Mechoacan, Mechoacanna (N.Y.). Compounds C1. General attributive. † mechoacan root n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. sig. Ziv/1, in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) The (Indian) Mechoacan root, Rhamindique. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 727/1 Mechoacan root. Batatas Jalapa. C2. † mechoacan-ale n. Obsolete a drink medicated with mechoacan. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > specific barley waterc1320 metheglinc1450 wood-drink1611 nectarine1628 nectar1684 mechoacan-ale1696 clary-wine1727 celery whey1761 mustard whey1769 tar-beer1857 treacle-posset1876 1696 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 2) 203 Spring and Fall purge with Mecoacan-Ale. † mechoacan jalap n. Obsolete = sense 1a. ΚΠ 1878 A. Gray Synoptical Flora N. Amer. II. i. 211 I[pomœ́a] Jalápa, Pursh... Apparently same as the Mexican false or Mechoacan Jalap, but root of the U.S. plant hardly purgative. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577
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