单词 | wormseed |
释义 | wormseedn. 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). ΘΚΠ 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. 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. 3. The eggs of the silkworm moth. Cf. seed n. 6a. ΘΚΠ 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.). 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 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. Π 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.). Π 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 170 The Worm-Seed Weed. 1830 J. D. Maycock Flora Barbadensis 446 Worm Seed Weed. Chenopodium anthelminticum. Π 15973Wormseedwoort [see sense 1]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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