Common centauryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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common centaury (uncountable)

1. A pink-flowering plant of species Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe, where it is used in traditional medicine.

   Synonyms: European centaury, feverwort, lesser centaury (dated), blushwort (England)

   • 1840, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica: Vegetable and animal materia medica, page 899:

     Common or lesser centaury is rarely used by medical practitioners; yet it might be employed as an indigenous substitute for gentian.

   • 2010 November 12, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegg, chapter 13, in The Western Herbal Tradition E-Book: The Western Herbal Tradition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 137:

     The initial advice of Dioscorides on centaury is unclear as he refers to the 'small useless root' of common centaury but then recommends the pounded root as a plaster for injuries, and to cleanse old ulcers to form a scar.