| 单词 | swamp devil's-bit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswamp devil's-bit 3. U.S. Any of various North American medicinal plants with a root or rhizome which terminates abruptly, esp. blazing star, Chamaelirium luteum, and button snakeroot, Liatris spicata (now rare). Also: †(in full swamp devil's-bit) the hop tree, Ptelea trifoliata (family Rutaceae), the bitter bark of which has been used medicinally (obsolete rare). ΚΠ 1735 P. Collinson Let. 19 June in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 11 I want..the Devils Bitt or Blazeing Star. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 514 Devil's Bit is another wild plant, which grows in the fields, and receives its name from a print that seems to be made by teeth in the root. 1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Amer. U.S. III. 518 This root is called star-root, blazing star, devil's bit, and greatly esteemed both by the Indians and the people of several States for many qualities. 1815 D. Drake Nat. & Statist. View Cincinnati ii. 87 [List of plants used in medicine] Devilsbit. 1836 D. B. Edward Hist. Texas ii. 43 Let us look at some of the roots and plants below, such as the devils bit, the blood-root. 1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 406 A medicinal plant (Aletris farinosa), which, under the name of Devil's Bit is highly esteemed in the West for its virtues. 1896 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) 379 Swamp Devil's Bit (Ptelea trifoliata). 1914 Publ. Buffalo Hist. Soc. 18 287 Devil's Bit. This is a wild plant that bears on its root the mark of a tooth. 2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobotany 72/2 Devil's Bit usually applied to Chamaelirium luteum. < as lemmas |
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