prangosとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the native name in the vicinity of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, or Tibet.

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名詞

prangos (plural not attested)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Prangos of umbelliferous plants.
2. (botany) Prangos pabularia

参照

• “prangos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Squeal-Zyg. (1845, Smedley and Rose): " […] but the most remarkable vegetable found in this region [Tibet] is the Prángós, which grows only in the neighbourhood of Drás, on the Sind'h, a stream which runs into the Lake of Kashmir. It is a new kind of umbellate, called Prangos pabularia, by Professor Lindley, […] "
• George Henderson (M.D.), Allan Octavian Hume (1873) Lahore to Yārkand: Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870, Under T. D. Forsyth, page 39: “Below Pandrás the Prangos pabularia, which is called "prangos" in Tibetan, and was once supposed to be a cure for "rot" in sheep, is very abundant.”

アナグラム

• Sarpong