opopanaxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin opopanax, from Hellenistic Greek ὀποπάναξ (opopánax), from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “vegetable juice”) + πάναξ (pánax, “any of several plants believed to have medicinal benefits”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈpɒpənaks/
• (General American) IPA: /əˈpɑpənæks/

名詞

opopanax (countable and uncountable, plural opopanaxes)

1. (obsolete) A gum resin obtained from the root of Opopanax chironium, formerly used in medicine.

   Synonym: bisabol

2. A perfume made from the gum resin of various trees.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 450:

     they were hit by a strong polyaromatic gust [...] which included alcohol fumes, tobacco and hemp-smoke, a spectrum of inexpensive scent in which opopanax and vervain figured prominently

3. The popinac or opopanax tree (Acacia farnesiana, syn. Vachellia farnesiana), an acacia of America.