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
语源
Middle English : via Old French from medieval Latin alembicus, from Arabic al-’anbīk from al- 'the' + ’anbī k 'still' (from Greek ambix, ambik- 'cup, cap of a still')