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单词 tacamahac
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tacamahactacamahacan.

/ˈtakəməhak/ /ˌtækəməˈhɑːkə/
Forms: Also 1600s techomahac, 1600s–1700s tacamahacca, 1700s tacamahack, 1700s taccamahac, tacamacha, tacka mohacca.
Etymology: < obsolete Spanish tacamahaca, in Hernandez 1614 thecomahaca , < Aztec tecomahiyac ; modern Spanish tacamaca . Compare Monardes 1579 ‘ex Nova Hispania..ab Indis tacamahaca vocatum’. In French tacamaque . Tacamahac is the more usual form, and that recognized in North America in sense 2.
1. An aromatic resin, used for incense, and formerly extensively in medicine: (a) (originally) that yielded by a Mexican tree, Bursera (Elaphrium) tomentosa; (b) extended in the West Indies and South America to similar resins obtained from other species of Bursera and the allied genus Protium, and subsequently to resins imported from Madagascar, Bourbon, and the East Indies, chiefly the product of species of Calophyllum.
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frankincensea1400
frank14..
thurec1425
mascle thure?1440
olibanc1440
smoke1530
perfume1542
masculine frankincense1555
tacamahac1577
cayolac1588
masculine gum1604
candle1628
pastille1630
Spanish coal1631
incense-frank1633
thymiama1697
censery1823
punk1844
joss-stick1845
god-stick1874
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > gums and viscid products > [noun] > gum resins
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mastica1398
olibanuma1398
opopanaxa1400
serapinec1400
olibanc1440
tragacanth1558
gum tragacanth1562
tacamahac1577
seraphium1582
bdellium1585
sagapenum1597
liquidambar1598
lignum vitae1611
gamboge1615
sagapen1712
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angico1821
1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes i. f. 3 Gumme called Tacamahaca.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Tacamahaca, a Rosin brought out of the West Indies, of great vertue against any cold humours [etc.].
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 622 The Techomahac-Tree from Mexico.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3898/3 The Cargo of the Galeon.., consisting of..Jollop, Gum Elemni, Tacka Mohacca,..&c.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 92 Gum call'd Tacamacha p. 100 Weight 05 05.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 137 Tacamahack is a resinous Gum, from the West Indies.
?1750 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 2) 107 Apply to the Cheek Gum Tacamahac spread on Silk.
1802 Naval Chron. 8 150 (I. of France) Tacamahaca, stinking wood.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 460 Tacamahac from Elaphrium tomentosum.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 401 The true East India Tacamahaca is produced by Calophyllum Calaba.
2. The resin of the buds of the North American Balsam Poplar, Populus balsamifera; hence a name of this tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun]
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popple-tree1229
abele?a1300
poplar1371
black poplar1542
white poplar1542
poppling1570
cotton tree1633
tacamahac1739
Lombardy poplar1766
poplar pine1770
Po poplar1776
grey poplar1782
cottonwood1787
pine poplar1789
liard1809
white-backa1825
necklace poplar1845
silver poplar1847
weather-tree1847
hackmatack1873
bitter-weed1878
balsam-poplar1884
Russian poplar1884
Lombardy1917
1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 3) II. Addenda s.v. The Tacamahaca. This Tree grows spontaneously on the Continent of America.
1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Populus The Buds of this Tree are covered with a glutinous Resin, which smells very strong, and this is the Tacamahacca used in the Shops.
1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 32/1 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Tacamahacca, or great balsam poplar.
1842 P. J. Selby Brit. Forest Trees 213 The list of Tacamahacs mentioned by Loudon.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 255 Poplar buds, especially those of P[opulus] nigra, balsamifera, and candicans, are besmeared in winter with a resinous..exudation, which [passes] under the name of Tacamahac.
1881 tr. Verne's Fur Country 95 Jaspar also noticed the tacamahac, a species of poplar which grows to a great height.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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