单词 | black mechoacan |
释义 | > as lemmasblack mechoacan black mechoacan n. now historical and rare a kind of jalap obtained from the tuberous root of a Mexican climbing plant, Ipomoea purga; (also) the plant itself. ΚΠ 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. cccxxii. 873 It is called by those of Alexandria and Marscilles Ialapium or Gelapum: and of those of Marseilles it is thought the blacke or male Mechoacan. 1687 tr. P. Barbette Thes. Chirurgiæ (ed. 4) 8 Medicines that purge Phlegm. The Roots of Asarum, Mechoacan white and black, Hellebore, Colocinth, Myrabolani, [etc.]. 1708 Hist. Wks. Learned Apr. 215 Mr. Linder puts also in this rank Gumma-gutta, Euphorbium, Scammony.., the Plant named the Passion-flower, or black Mechoacan, commonly called Jalap. 1874 F. A. Flückiger & D. Hanbury Pharmacographia i. 398 Thus jalap which at that period used to be imported cut into transverse slices, was termed from its darker colour, Black Mechoacan. 1911 J. U. Lloyd Hist. Veg. Drugs 52 Owing to this confusion between the two bulbs, one was called black mechoacan, while the other was known as white jalap. < as lemmas |
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