单词 | orobus |
释义 | orobusn. Botany. Now rare. Any of various vetches or wild peas, esp. (a) any of those constituting the genus Orobus (now united with the genus Lathyrus), chiefly distinguished by their lack of tendrils and erect habit; (in form Orobus) the genus itself; (b) the Mediterranean vetch Vicia ervilia.The English name bitter vetch has been used for these plants since the time of Turner, who founded the appellation upon a passage in Galen (see quot. 1551), though the early herbalists admit that the identity of Galen's ὄροβος was unknown to them.Valid publication as a genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 728. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > vetch vetchc1300 orobusa1398 tarec1400 ervil1551 ers1578 fowl-foot1578 oreb1587 urle1659 tare-grass1686 orobe1714 thetch1733 twine-grass1743 wood-vetch1766 tare-vetch1811 scorpion-wort1852–6 pigeon pea1884 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant hyssopc1000 sionc1000 tunhoofc1000 poppyOE camomilea1300 orobusa1398 tithymala1400 tutsana1400 Thapsiac1400 melissa?a1425 hallelujahc1425 turmeric1538 succory1541 balin1546 English treacle1548 treacle mustard1548 rhabarb1558 Thlaspi1562 treacle clover1562 holy herb1567 lungwort1578 solanum1578 lightwort1587 neezing wort1591 Alexander's Foot1597 burst-wort1597 symphonia1597 wound-herb1597 leper's herb1600 all bones1633 schoenanth1633 nip1651 wound-shrub1659 hermodact1678 jusquiam1727 Algerian tea1728 Australian tea1728 strongback1739 silphium1753 belladonna1788 foxglove1801 ledum1822 yercum1826 lungs of oak1856 strong man's weed1864 conium1866 short-long1871 fever grass1875 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 102 Aȝeines suche bytyng of a wood man þis helpiþ specialliche: þe iuse of caprifolium..mente, orobum. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 178v (MED) Orobus is a grayne ca. in primo, sic. in secundo and ouer with abstercioun. ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 190 (MED) Orobus is an herbe þat men clepe mousope [read mousepe], and þer-of are iiij specis of þat kende: on haȝt a ȝelwȝ flour, þe toþer haȝt a quyt flour, þe thrydde haȝt a reed flour, and þe ferthe haȝt a purpul flour. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. P iijv Galen..and Aetius with one consent hold that the black orobus is bitter. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 77v Opium..taken in the quantite of a bitter fich, called eruum or orobus. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 91/2 Wood, or wild Orobus [hath] the Flowers white, the cod black. 1703 tr. H. van Oosten Dutch Gardener ii. cv. 135 Of the Orobus. This is a small blue purplish Flower, bears plentifully; it is a sort of Vetches. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2289/1 Orobus, bitter-vetch, a genus of the diadelphia-decandria class of plants, with a papilionaceous flower. 1801 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 15 521 (heading) Early-flowering Orobus. 1820 R. Hooper Lexicon-medicum (ed. 4) 637/1 Orobus,..the pharmacopœial name of the ervum. 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 608/2 Oroboides.., a name given to urine, Urina orobodes seu oroboïdes, when depositing a substance of a fawn colour, like the meal of the orobus. 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 608/2 Orobus, Ervum ervilia. 1881 W. Robinson Wild Garden (ed. 2) vi. 41 Among the families of plants that are suitable for the various positions enumerated at the head of this chapter may be named..May Apple, Orobus in variety, Narcissi. 1903 Flora & Sylva 1 202/1 The name ‘Orobus’ is useful, for it expresses a race of plants..distinct from the climbers to which the name ‘Lathyrus’ was formerly exclusively applied. These Orobi..supply some of the most beautiful of spring and early summer flowers. 1963 Oxf. Bk. Garden Flowers 36/2 Orobus aureus (Lathyrus luteus aureus)... Orobus grows easily in any ordinary soil and makes a bushy plant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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