单词 | tartarian wormseed |
释义 | > as lemmasTartarian wormseed 2. The dried flower-heads of one or other of these plants, used as an anthelmintic. Formerly also in plural Levant wormseed, Alexandrian wormseed, Barbary wormseed, Tartarian wormseed, that prepared from species of Artemisia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > remedies for parasitic infections > [noun] > vermifuge or anthelminthic > plant-derived wormseedc1503 santonica1658 worm-grass1756 filix mas1789 worm-barkc1791 cowage1801 kamala1820 wormseed oil1830 Mucuna1836 santonin1838 Corsican moss1849 kousso1851 worm-oil1855 crab-oil1858 tallicoona oil1866 kainic acid1954 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxixv/1 Wormesede ij s'. vi d'. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 238v Woorme seede of the best kynde, cauled Semenzina. 1594 R. Wilson Coblers Prophesie sig. C1 Sould. I abhorre and defie thee. Con. Euen as the child doth wormeseed hid in Raisons. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 941 This Wormwood called Sementina, & Semen sanctum..beareth that seede which we haue in vse, called Wormseede: in shoppes Semen santolinum. 1615 in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1899) III. 177 Wormseeds likewise doth grow in Corosson. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 13 The Child certainly knows..That the Wormseed or Mustard it refuses, is not the Apple or Sugar it cries for. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3983/4 The Cargo of the Ship Hamstead Galley,..consisting of..Worm-seeds, Gum Arabeck [etc.]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Worm-seed,..a kind of Seed proper to destroy Worms generated in a human Body. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Chenopodium The fourth and fifth Sorts were brought from America, where the Seeds are call'd Worm-Seed. 1789 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 82 The Chenopodium, producing the semen santonicum, or worm-seed, a medicine formerly in great character. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Wormseed... The name is applied in herb-shops to Semen contra, the produce of several species of Artemisia. 1867 H. Watts Dict. Chem. Wormseed. Semen Cinæ. Semen Contra. Semen Santonici.—The flower-buds of Artemisia Vahliana, A. Sieberi, and A. inculta. 1868 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 3) 263 Santonica or worm seed. < as lemmas |
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