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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several hemiparasitic herbs or shrubs of the genus Krameria of the Americas, having bilaterally symmetrical pink or purplish flowers and spiny fruit.
- noun The dried root of any of these plants, formerly used as an astringent, in various dental preparations, and as the source of a dye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ratany .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (
Krameria triandra ). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. - noun the root of
Krameria Ixina , a native of New Granada.
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- noun The powerfully
astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra), used inmedicine and to colourport wine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For a cherry red use tincture of saffron; for light amber to deep brown use sugar colouring; for brandy colour, sugar; for red use beet root or saunders; for port wine colour use extract of rhatany.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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The catechu which is obtained in India from the Bonga differs from that obtained from the _Acacia Catechu_ and is a tonic analogous to rhatany and cinchona.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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I will state in passing that the Report for 1855 also contains notices of the best mode of cultivating many other medicinal plants -- such as the rhatany, gall-nut oak, Iceland moss, liquorice, quassia, senna, gum arabic, etc.
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-- This is one of the species that yield the rhatany roots of commerce.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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The kino and the rhatany root are to be macerated in the alcohol for seven or eight days; and after filtration, the other articles are to be added.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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Alcohol, one thousand parts; genuine kino, one hundred parts; rhatany root, one hundred parts; tincture of balsam of tolu, two parts; tincture of gum benzoin, two parts; essential oil of canella, two parts; essential oil of mint, two parts; essential oil of aniseed, one part.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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And rhatany, a leguminous shrub of South America, shows tampering with what must have been a Kechua word.
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-- The following is considered a most valuable preparation: Take of extract of yellow Peruvian bark, fifteen grains; extract of rhatany root, eight grains; extract of burdoch root and oil of nutmegs (fixed), of each two drachms; camphor (dissolve with spirits of wine), fifteen grains; beef marrow, two ounces; best olive oil, one ounce; citron juice, half a drachm; aromatic essential oil, as much as sufficient to render it fragrant; mix and make into an ointment.
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a most valuable preparation: Take of extract of yellow Peruvian bark, fifteen grains; extract of rhatany root, eight grains; extract of burdoch root and oil of nutmegs (fixed), of each two drachms; camphor
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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