| 单词 | candy mastic |
| 释义 | > as lemmascandy mastic a. Either of two plants of the western Mediterranean formerly much used in medicine, esp. to induce sneezing: (a) (more fully herb mastic) a kind of thyme, Thymus mastichina; (b) (more fully candy mastic, Syrian (herb) mastic) cat thyme, Teucrium marum. See also marum n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > herb mastic mastic1597 mastic thyme1640 marum1666 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 544 The English and French Herbarists at this daie do call this plant Masticke or Mastiche. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 12 Marum vulgare. Hearbe Masticke. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 13 Marum Syriacum vel Creticum. The Syrian or Candye Mastick. This Candye or Syrian Marjerome. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 302 It is not yet too late to plant Slips of..Marum, Mastick, and some other Aromatick Plants. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Marum vulgare, the common mastich; Thymus mastichina, Linn. It is a low shrubby plant, a native of Spain, and is merely employed in medicine as an errhine. 1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 907/1 Teucrium marum,... Syrian herb mastich, Cat thyme... A very aromatic plant... Formerly much used..as a tonic, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, &c. < as lemmas |
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