英语词汇urginea的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Urginea. Ben Urgin, not a man but an Arabian tribe in Alge- ria, gives its name to the genus Urginea, comprising about 75 species belonging to the lily family and native to the Mediterra- nean, the East Indies, and South Africa. The bulbs of U. marite- nia, the only species found in the Mediterranean, are known in medicine as squills. Generally gathered for their drug proper- ties, they are used in Sicily for making whiskey. These bulbs of- ten weigh up to four pounds and yield a fluid once considered valuable medically as an expectorant, a diuretic, and for its digitalis-like action on the heart. The first specimen of Urginea was found in the territory of the Ben Urgin tribe and named by the German botanist Steinheil.

词汇	urginea
词源	Urginea. Ben Urgin, not a man but an Arabian tribe in Alge- ria, gives its name to the genus Urginea, comprising about 75 species belonging to the lily family and native to the Mediterra- nean, the East Indies, and South Africa. The bulbs of U. marite- nia, the only species found in the Mediterranean, are known in medicine as squills. Generally gathered for their drug proper- ties, they are used in Sicily for making whiskey. These bulbs of- ten weigh up to four pounds and yield a fluid once considered valuable medically as an expectorant, a diuretic, and for its digitalis-like action on the heart. The first specimen of Urginea was found in the territory of the Ben Urgin tribe and named by the German botanist Steinheil.
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