| 单词 | royal yellow bark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroyal yellow bark royal bark n. now historical and rare (more fully royal yellow bark) a variety of cinchona bark; esp. calisaya bark from the Peruvian tree, Cinchona calisaya. ΘΚΠ 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 barks mezereona1500 cortex1680 Jesuits' bark1694 tellicherry bark1734 slippery elm1748 white cinnamon1751 mezereum1754 canella1756 royal bark1794 cinchona1800 rohun bark1820 false Winter's bark1830 calisaya bark1837 mezereon bark1837 Suriname bark1844 carony bark1853 Honduras bark1881 1794 J. Relph Inq. Med. Efficacy Yellow Bark 63 Dr Thuessink..has said, that it is called Royal Bark, because it was intended for the use of the Royal Family of Spain. 1836 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. II. 49/1 There are two varieties of the bark in commerce, the Calisaya, or royal yellow bark, and the orange yellow bark. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 782/1 The yellow, royal, or Calisaya bark.., the produce of Cinchona Calisaya. 1949 L. J. Warshaw Malaria xxii. 214 Because one particular kind of bark was once purchased for the exclusive use of the King, it was designated as ‘royal’ bark. royal yellow bark yellow bark n. [compare scientific Latin cortex chinae flavus, lit. ‘yellow quina bark’ (1792 or earlier)] now historical any type of cinchona bark that is yellow in colour; spec. (more fully royal yellow bark) that obtained from the tree Cinchona calisaya, considered particularly valuable for the treatment of malaria (= calisaya bark n. at calisaya n.); cf. red bark n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > cinchona tree or bark Peruvian bark1663 quinquina1681 Jesuits' Bark1704 quinaquina1708 quinquina1740 cinchona1742 quill bark1742 grey bark1781 red bark1782 bark-tree1783 yellow bark1794 cinchona-bark1811 crown bark1823 Loxa bark1825 Suriname bark1844 Lima bark1855 quinine tree1855 1794 J. Relph Inq. Med. Efficacy Yellow Bark 59 This is now known in London by the name of Yellow Bark. 1794 J. Relph Inq. Med. Efficacy Yellow Bark 62 It will be the means of avoiding confusion, if, in future, this bark should be denominated the Royal Yellow Bark. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 173/2 The Carthagena yellow barks both contain quinia, but in less quantity than the Calisaya bark. 1903 Monthly Homœopathic Rev. 1 Dec. 758 Redwood distinguishes the variety C. Calisaya vera (Wedd.) as that which formerly yielded the yellow, or true Calisaya bark of English commerce, and this was one of the species of bark most rich in quinine, sometimes distinguished as Royal yellow bark, or China Regia. 2004 M. Honigsbaum & M. Willcox in M. Willcox et al. Trad. Medicinal Plants & Malaria ii. 97 Cinchona pubescens (red bark) contains near equal amounts of cinchonine, cinchonidine, and quinine... C[inchona] calisaya (yellow bark) contains all four alkaloids. < as lemmas |
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