▪ I. ‖ matico
(maˈtiko)
Also mateco, matica.
[Sp. yerba Matico (yerba herb; Matico dim. of Mateo Matthew); alleged to be named from a Spanish soldier who discovered its styptic properties.]
A Peruvian shrub, Piper angustifolium (Artanthe elongata). b. The leaves of this plant used as a styptic.
| 1838 Jeffreys in Lancet 5 Jan. (1839) 567 The name of the plant from which the leaves are collected, is Matèco. 1842 Provincial Med. & Surg. Jrnl. June 209 The South American styptic ‘maticò’. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §1034 The substance called Matico or Matica. 1880 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 415 Bleeding from leech-bites may be stopped..by matico. |
c. attrib., as matico leaf, matico oil, matico plant.
| 1880 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 351 Maticæ Folia. *Matico Leaves. |
| 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict., *Matico-oil. |
| 1871 Watts tr. Gmelin's Handbk. Chem. XVIII. 234 The leaves of the *matico plant. |
▪ II. matico
see mataco.