英语词汇nicotine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

nicotine. C10H14N2, as the nicotine staining my fingers is sci- entifically described, is named for Jean Nicot, lord of Villemain (ca. 1530–1600), French ambassador to Lisbon in 1560 when Portuguese explorers were first bringing back tobacco seeds from the new continent of America. Nicot was given a tobacco plant from Florida, cultivated what is said to be the first tobacco raised in Europe, and sent the fruits of his harvest to France’s queen mother Catherine de Médicis and other notables. After introducing what Catherine called the ambassador’s powder (snuff) into France, the enterprising Nicot proceeded to grow a tobacco crop that he brought back to Paris and built a tidy for- tune on. The American powder became so popular that the to- bacco plant itself was called nicotina, after Nicot, and Linnaeus later officially named the whole Nicotiana genus of the night- shade family in his honor, this group including the tobacco plant most commonly cultivated today, the species Nicotiana rustica. Nicotine, the oily liquid found in tobacco leaves, wasn’t so named until 1818, when it was first isolated. It is one of the most physiologically active drugs known, producing most of the observed effects of smoking. The alkaloid is poisonous to bugs as well as humans, and is used as an insecticide in agriculture.

词汇	nicotine
词源	nicotine. C10H14N2, as the nicotine staining my fingers is sci- entifically described, is named for Jean Nicot, lord of Villemain (ca. 1530–1600), French ambassador to Lisbon in 1560 when Portuguese explorers were first bringing back tobacco seeds from the new continent of America. Nicot was given a tobacco plant from Florida, cultivated what is said to be the first tobacco raised in Europe, and sent the fruits of his harvest to France’s queen mother Catherine de Médicis and other notables. After introducing what Catherine called the ambassador’s powder (snuff) into France, the enterprising Nicot proceeded to grow a tobacco crop that he brought back to Paris and built a tidy for- tune on. The American powder became so popular that the to- bacco plant itself was called nicotina, after Nicot, and Linnaeus later officially named the whole Nicotiana genus of the night- shade family in his honor, this group including the tobacco plant most commonly cultivated today, the species Nicotiana rustica. Nicotine, the oily liquid found in tobacco leaves, wasn’t so named until 1818, when it was first isolated. It is one of the most physiologically active drugs known, producing most of the observed effects of smoking. The alkaloid is poisonous to bugs as well as humans, and is used as an insecticide in agriculture.
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