单词 | pituri |
释义 | piturin. Australian. The prepared leaves of a Central Australian shrub, Duboisia hopwoodii (family Solanaceae), containing nornicotine and traditionally chewed by Aboriginal people as a stimulant or crushed and placed in waterholes to stun food animals; (also) the shrub itself, or any of several related plants with similar properties. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > miscellaneous narcotic drugs from plants henbane?a1425 metel1528 datura1598 carpese1605 cabbage bark1777 majoun1780 lettuce opium1799 stramonium1802 niopo1821 tea oil1837 khat1858 pituri1861 steppe rue1881 ololiuqui1894 toloache1894 yopo1916 mellow yellow1966 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 1861 Burke & Wills Exploring Exped. 13 I distributed the few remaining presents, and they gave in return some chewed pitchery and nardoo balls. 1863 Proc. Royal Soc. 1862–3 12 1 ‘Pitcherry’, a narcotic plant brought by King, the explorer, from the interior of Australia, where it is used by the natives to produce intoxication. 1883 F. M. Bailey Synopsis Queensland Flora 350 Pitury of the natives..chewed by the natives as the white man does the tobacco. 1889 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals (1890) 49 Pituri is highly valued as a stimulant. 1915 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Feb. 13/3 Amongst the S. Australian and West Queensland aboriginals ‘pitchery’, whether to chew or smoke, is a big-fella luxury. 1931 I. L. Idriess Lasseter's Last Ride (1933) xvii. 137 Old Warts took from behind his ear a half-chewed plug of pituri, made from the pituri shrub. 1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xiv. 102 Finally one by one the pituri-chewers become stupefied, rolling over and sleeping through day and night. 1964 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 25 Oct. 3/1 We tossed our swags into the station land rover..for a two-day run from the station out to Allawonga Springs and the pituri country. 1967 New Scientist 27 Apr. 226/1 Even the primitive Australian Aborigine has found a pleasurable weed—pitery—which contains nornicotine. 1980 B. Scott Darkness under Hills 84 ‘Chew on these until you are ready to leave your body,’ he instructed. ‘They are the pituri plant from the far-off fringe of the desert.’ 2000 Guardian 1 July (Saturday section) 1/5 He gave me pituri, native tobacco, to chew so I wouldn't feel tired. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1861 |
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