sebesten

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /sɪˈbɛs.tən/    美 /sɪˈbɛs.tən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.
    — 2. Sebesten sylvestris. The wilde Sebesten. The wild Sebesten is in all things like the other, but that it groweth lower, more like unto a hedge bush, and with lesser and thinner leaves; the flowers and fruit are alike but lesse.
  2. The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit from these plants, eaten and used medicinally against pectoral diseases, also in a mixture called diasebesten, and for glue.

词形变化

sebestens plural

词汇关系

近义词
Assyrian plum lasora lasura

词源

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”).
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