jalap
/'dʒælәp/
📖 中文释义
- n. 泻药
- [化] 球根牵牛
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium
- purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract,
- and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative
- medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of
- jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa.