| 单词 | physic-nut tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasphysic-nut tree A tropical American shrub, Jatropha curcas (family Euphorbiaceae), having large, roundish to heart-shaped, sometimes lobate leaves and a reddish, milky sap (more fully physic-nut bush, physic-nut tree); the fruit or seed of this shrub, yielding pulza oil and used as a purgative. Also: any of various other tropical American plants, esp. of the genus Jatropha, whose seeds have a similar purgative effect, esp. (a) (more fully French physic nut) J. multifida; (b) (more fully wild physic nut) J. gossypiifolia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun] physic nut1657 milk-bush1696 milk-tree1698 poison-bush1740 jatropha1754 milky-hedge1773 milk hedge1780 chandelier plant1827 Jew bush1830 candelabrum1834 poinsettia1836 slipper-plant1848 coquillo1851 zebra poison1871 oil tree1879 picture-tree1885 slipper spurs1887 monkey fiddle1913 milk plant1965 stringwood- 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 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > fruit or seed > physic-nut or purging nut pinyon1577 physic nut1657 purging nut1668 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 67 They gather'd all the Physick-nuts they could. 1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 81 Physic-Nut Tree. 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland ii. 71 Physick-Nuts, as our Seamen call them, are called here Pineon. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 115 The physic-nut-tree. This is generally a knotty shrubby tree. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 348 French Physic Nut. This plant is pretty much raised in Jamaica, and forms no small ornament in many of their flower-gardens. 1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Plants N. Amer. in tr. J. B. Bossu Trav. Louisiana II. 60 Jatropha urens... Physic-nut, burning. 1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 88 The croton lacciferum, or physic nut bush, bears a seed which..acts as a powerful emetic. 1865 F. Sayer in Fortn. Rev. 1 617 Even the street lamps [in Madeira] are lighted with physic-nut oil. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xvi. 274 The French Physic-nut, with its hemp-like leaves, and a little bunch of red coral in the midst. 1951 A. Nelson Med. Bot. xxiii. 456 Among other members of the Family Euphorbiaceae possessed of a purgative action is Jatropha curcas L. the seeds of which are known as purging nuts or physic nuts. 1995 New Yorker 2 Oct. 38/3 For complaints from colds to cramps, there is tree of life and spiritweed and Circe and physic-nut leaf. < as lemmas |
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