| 单词 |
simaruba |
| 释义 |
simaruba Bot. and Med.|sɪməˈruːbə|
Also 8–9 simarouba.
[Native name in Guyana, known in Europe from c 1713, at first in the French form simarouba; the ending -ba is characteristic of Carib tree-names.]
1. A tree of the genus Simaruba, esp. S. amara or officinalis (formerly called Quassia Simaruba), a native of northern Brazil, Guyana, and some West Indian islands. Also attrib., as simaruba bark (see 2), simaruba family, simaruba tree.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Simarouba. The bark of this plant is very successful in the cure of dysenteries. 1756Browne Nat. Hist. Jamaica 345 The bark of the root of this tree [Terebinthus] is thought to be the Sima-rouba of the shops. 1769E. Bancroft Nat. Hist. Guiana 84 The Simaruba tree is peculiar to Guiana. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 40 Simarouba Bark, is the Bark of the root of a species of Birch-tree, not yet sufficiently described. 1849J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §831 Simarubaceæ, the Quassia and Simaruba Family. 1866Treas. Bot. 1060/1 S. amara..yields the drug known as Simaruba-bark, which is, strictly speaking, the rind of the root.
2. The bark of the root of Simaruba amara, which contains quassine and is employed medicinally as a tonic or astringent.
1778Wright in Edin. Trans. (1790) II. 79 The disorder was happily cured by the simaruba. 1789Cullen Mat. Med. II. 75 My account of the effect of bitters in the dysentery will perhaps explain the virtues ascribed to simaruba. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 376 Decoction of bark with simarouba. 1876T. B. Curling Dis. Rectum 115 Vegetable astringents, such as simaruba and krameria. 1898P. Manson Trop. Dis. xviii. 312 Boil half an ounce of simaruba in a pint and a half of water. |
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