单词	khat
释义	khat noun ˈkät  variants or less commonly qat or kat : a shrub (Catha edulis) of the staff-tree family that is cultivated in the Middle East and Africa for its leaves and buds which are the source of a habituating stimulant when chewed or used as a tea also : its leaves and buds Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web An in-depth view of the euphoria-inducing plant khat, the lives of those who harvest the crop in Harar, Ethiopia, and the people who are addicted to it. Olivia Mccormack, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022 The crops that painted the 12-hour-long drive from Addis to Harar — teff, sorghum and coffee — were now replaced by a green blanket of khat, an ancient stimulant now turned into the most lucrative cash crop. Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2022 Cathinone’s occurrence in khat plants, however, does raise one intriguing question: Could these plants contain hidden fungal partners that are actually the engineers behind the compounds? Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 27 May 2021 His attorneys describe him as a family man and hard worker with no criminal record who was never caught with any khat. Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 4 Dec. 2020 In the center of Hargeisa, in a plaza where men while away hours drinking earthy camel milk tea and chewing thick bundles of khat, a local narcotic, and taxis idle waiting for customers, stands an old Somali fighter plane mounted on a tall pedestal. Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2020 In Hargeisa, men gather in informal street-side cafes to drink camel-milk tea and chew khat, a local leafy plant that is a mild narcotic. Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2020 Men with no jobs and no purpose loiter in the market chewing khat leaves to escape their dreary existence. Alan Gratz, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020 The khat is imported by truck from Harar in Ethiopia. Jillian Keenan, Time, 20 Aug. 2019 See More Word History Etymology Arabic qāt First Known Use 1856, in the meaning defined above Medical Definition khat noun variants also kat or qat or quat ˈkät  : a shrub (Catha edulis) cultivated in the Middle East and Africa for its leaves and buds that are the source of a habituating stimulant when chewed or used as a tea
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