单词 | quinologist |
释义 | quinologistn. Now historical. An expert on the production, properties, and use of quinine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > apothecary or pharmacist > [noun] > pharmacologist > with regard to specific drug quinologist1869 1869 J. E. Howard Quinology E. Indian Plantations 13 The Quinologist appointed by Government. 1890 Times 5 Feb. 9/5 [The] late quinologist to the Bengal Government. 1944 Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Soc. 4 751 Prain acted for him as Superintendent of the Garden, as Quinologist, and as Professor of Botany at the Medical College in Calcutta. 1997 Brittonia 49 480/2 A large number of ‘quinologists’..were sent from Europe to South America to search for Cinchona and many related taxa, as sources of quinine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869 |
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