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单词 wormseed
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wormseedn.

Brit. /ˈwəːmsiːd/, U.S. /ˈwərmˌsid/
Etymology: worm n. 4.
1. A name for various plants considered to have anthelmintic properties; as swine's fennel or sulphurwort, Peucedanum officinale; Artemisia santonica, A. vahliana, A. judaica, A. maritima; Erysimum cheiranthoides (Treacle or English Wormseed); Chenopodium anthelminticum and Ambrina anthelmintica (American Wormseed); Halogeton tamariscifolium (Spanish Wormseed).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts
boneworteOE
springworteOE
atterlothec1000
halswortc1000
bruisewortOE
motherworta1200
panax?a1200
bloodworta1300
serpentinea1400
tutsana1400
wartworta1400
wormseeda1400
grace of God?c1400
nailworta1425
Gratia Dei?c1425
sanguinaryc1440
panacea1522
parthenium1548
woundwort1548
wart-weed1573
cardiaca1578
hermodactyl1578
panacea1590
holy seed1597
whitlow-grass1597
feverwort1611
fever and ague root1676
rattlesnake root1682
snake-root1712
cancer root1714
fever-root1739
strongback1739
rheumatism root1835
heal-all1853
wound-weed1857
a1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS 188 Swynys fenkel or wyrmsed: feniculus porosus.
c1400 MS. Laud 553 lf. 11 Feniculus porcinus is an herbe þt me clepitth swynesfenel or wormeseed.
1541 Bk. Propertyes Herbes (new ed.) sig. D j Feniculus poeticus..is called worme sede. It is good to destroy wormes in a mannes body.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 212 Cameline, or English Woormseed.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 213 Treacle Wormeseede riseth vp with tough and pliant braunches.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 942 The Latines name it Sementina: the seede is called..Semen sanctum, Holie seede, and Semen contra Lumbricos: in English Wormseed; the herbe it selfe is also called Wormseed, or Wormseedwoort.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum vii. xxviii. 867 Camelina..English Wormeseede.
1686 J. Ray Historia Plantarum I. 368 Absinthium Santonicum Alexandrinum C.B...Semen Sanctum Park. Sementina Ger...Wormseed.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 332 Worm-seed, Chenopodium.
1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. I. 163 Chenopodium anthelminticum is very plentiful on the road... The English who settled here, call it Worm-seed and Jerusalem Oak... In Pensylvania and New Jersey its seeds are given to children, against the worms.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 585 Erysimum cheiranthoides..Treacle Wormseed.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica xiv. 451 Wormseed. Jerusalem Oak. Chenopodium anthelminticum,..growing all over America.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. (at cited word) Spanish Wormseed, Halogeton tamariscifolium.
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.
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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.
3. The eggs of the silkworm moth. Cf. seed n. 6a.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid > types of ovum
wind-egg1398
water egg1577
hypenemy1668
wormseed1733
pseudovum1858
unfertile1891
1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 133 By supplying the Planters in those Parts with small Quantities of Wormseed, of the best Breed.

Compounds

General attributive.
wormseed mustard n. (see quot.).
Π
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 35 Erysimum cheiranthoides. Worm-seed Mustard.
wormseed oil n. (see quots.).
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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
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 167 The essential oil of Chenopodium anthelminticum, known in North America under the name of Worm-seed Oil, is powerfully anthelmintic.
1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. Wormseed-oil. Oleum cinæ.
wormseed stone n. Obsolete (see quot.).
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a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) 65 A Stone..found in..Cornwall: and is called there, Wormseed-Stone, being thick set with small Bodies, not unlike the Semen Santonici, or Wormseed.
wormseed weed n. (see quots.).
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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 170 The Worm-Seed Weed.
1830 J. D. Maycock Flora Barbadensis 446 Worm Seed Weed. Chenopodium anthelminticum.
wormseed wort n. Obsolete (see quot.).
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15973Wormseedwoort [see sense 1].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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