单词 | copalche |
释义 | ‖ copalche, -chi|kəʊˈpæltʃɪ| [The native Mexican name.] A shrub of Mexico and Central America, Croton pseudo-China or niveus, family Euphorbiaceæ, yielding the copalchi-bark, used as a febrifuge, as a substitute for quinine; also a Brazilian tree Strychnos pseudo-China, to the bark of which the same properties have been ascribed.
1866Treas. Bot. 351 Croton pseudo-China, called in Mexico Copalche yields a bark..used in Mexico in place of cinchona. Ibid. 1106 Strychnos pseudo-China, a native of Brazil, yields Copalche-bark, which is largely used in that country in cases of fever. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Copalchi bark. Hence coˈpalchine, the bitter alkaloid of Copalchi bark. (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1882.) |

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