alembic
/əˈlembɪk/noun
- a distilling apparatus, now obsolete, consisting of a gourd-shaped container and a cap with a long beak for conveying the products to a receiver蒸馏器。
词源
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin alembicus, from Arabic al-'anbīḳ from al- 'the'+ 'anbīḳ 'still' （from Greek ambix, ambik- 'cup， cap of a still'）.