jalap
Kelime Anlamı :

1. çalapa.
2. bu bitkiden çıkarılan müshil ilâ.
3. calapa.
4. n.Çalepa, kökü müshil bir bitki veya bu bitkiden çıkarılan ilaç.
5. (isim) çalapa.
6. Exogonium purga.
Tanımlar :
1. A twining eastern mexican vine (ipomoea purga syn. I. jalapa) having tuberous roots that are dried, powdered, and used medicinally as a cathartic.
2. any of several similar or related plants.
3. the dried tuberous roots of these plants.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A cathartic drug consisting of the tuberous roots of ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant found in mexico.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. the tubers of the mexican plant Ipomœa purga (or Exogonium purga) of the family Convolvulaceae, a climber much like the morning-glory. the abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative (cathartic) medicines, and are also called jalap. other species of Ipomœa yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the Ipomœa Orizabensis, and Ipomœa tuberosa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A drug consisting of the tuberous roots of several plants of the natural order Convolvulaceæ, that of Ipomæapurga being the most important.
2. b) Ipomœa Jalapa, of the southern united states and tropical-america. see Mechoacan root, under root.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia