(n.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.
Example Sentences:
(1) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
(2) As part of the fortnight, on Wednesday, 21-year-old Bryony Hamblin, of Ystrad in the Rhondda Valley, who stacks shelves for a supermarket chain in Cardiff, will talk about fair pay at the Welsh assembly.
(3) Bryony Lavery's award-winning 1998 play Frozen looks at a doctor's attempt to unravel the motivations of a child killer.
(4) If Palingswick House is not ready, the council has offered the school an alternative venue at the Bryony Centre in White City.
(5) "If India offers an emissions target, even if it's relative to their economic growth, it's a very welcome step," said Bryony Worthington, founder of campaign group Sandbag.
(6) Bryony Lavery should make good work of bringing a 19th-century story to modern family audiences (including transforming Jim from boy to adventurous girl), and Polly Findlay should work her directorial magic to create a salty sea story full of adventure and thrills.
(7) Bryony Worthington, founder of Sandbag, welcomed the prospect of a ban on industrial gas offsets: "This vast supply of cheap and ineffective offsets means there is no need for investment in cutting emissions within the EU."
(8) The best supporting role nominees are Mark Addy (Collaborators), Oliver Chris (One Man), Johnny Flynn (Jerusalem), Bryony Hannah (The Children's Hour) and Sheridan Smith (Flare Path).
(9) She wrote that writers such as Caitlin Moran and Bryony Gordon (the Telegraph journalist allegedly called a “slut” or “slattern” by Michael Fallon , the defence secretary) are producing hyperconfessional works that constitute an “abandoning of dignity and self-respect”.
(10) The amino-acid sequences of two trypsin inhibitors isolated from red bryony (Bryonia dioica) and watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris) seeds are reported.
(11) Seven trypsin inhibitors were isolated from the seeds of Cucurbitaceae plants: two from cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and red bryony (Bryonia diotica) and one from figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia), spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo var.
(12) The London branch, run by students Julia Gray, 23, and Bryony Beynon, 25, launched last April in conjunction with nail salon WAH (which stands for We Ain't Hoes) in Dalston.
(13) There’s still a lot to do,” said Bryony Sadler, one of the scores of residents forced to evacuate the village of Moorland on the Somerset Levels almost a year ago and now finally back in her home.
(14) We’re spending money on all the wrong things and as a result the right things are not happening,” said Bryony Worthington , a Labour life peer and Sandbag founder.
(15) Bryony Worthington is a green campaigner and founder of Sandbag.org.uk
(16) Jenny Colgan said it was “ a bit like peering into the inside of your dog’s head ”; Bryony Gordon found it “about as sexy as a misery memoir and as arousing as the diary of a sex offender”.
(17) Bryony Sadler, a member of Somerset's Flooding on the Levels Action Group, told the newspaper: "We are extremely grateful to the Environment Agency's people on the ground, who are doing their best to help us.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bryony Gordon: ‘There’s still a slight shock that a woman can have casual sex … in a way that there isn’t with men.’ Photograph: Retts Wood Not that the old pressures have completely vanished.
(19) Think of writer and columnist Bryony Gordon’s revelations that her lover is so wrapped up in his job that he makes her have sex “to the dulcet tones of Jeremy Paxman berating an MP over the financial crisis”.
(20) Bryony Worthington, director of sandbag.org.uk I'd say things look pretty gloomy on the UN front.
Herb
Definition:
(n.) A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
(n.) Grass; herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(2) The cardiovascular pharmacology of two Chinese herbs, Salvia miltiorrhiza (SM) and Panax notoginseng (Burk) F. H. Chen (PNG) were studied both in vivo and in vitro.
(3) As LAM was composed of Kidney-tonifying herbs, all the subjects chosen fell into the pattern of Kidney-deficiency in TCM.
(4) These mutations, named herB, suppressed cer-6 replication in rnh+ bacteria.
(5) A better extractive technology was obtained after isolating and purifying the whole herb of Panax japonicum var.
(6) Clinacanthus nutans Burm, a herb reputed in Thailand and Malaysia to be "snakebite antidote" has been tested in vitro and in vivo for antivenin activity.
(7) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(8) In addition to insulin, there were 8 patients taking herbs to cure diabetes.
(9) This study examined the effects of the predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics on the use of health services by the elderly which includes hospital care, physician services, herb doctor services, self-medication with western drugs, and self-medication with herb drugs.
(10) Chinese medicinal preparation and Chinese patent medicine use traditional medicine and herb drugs as raw materials under the guide of pharmaceutical theory and is progressing into certain dose form according to the prescription book and confined method.
(11) Close to the smelters tree species accumulated more foliar fluoride than shrub species, which in turn accumulated more foliar fluoride than herb species.
(12) parsley, chives, thyme, fennel or another herb for the parsley.
(13) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
(14) Selective PK influence on membrane linked activation events in inflammatory effector cells could be the basis of anti-inflammatory and perhaps other biological activities reported with the herb.
(15) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
(16) 6)--a mixture of Chinese traditional herbs providing antipyretic and detoxifying action, showed principally normal ultrastructure in liver cells.
(17) Twenty-six herbal preparations made from 24 medicinal herbs, categorized as antipyretics in Chinese materia medica, were tested in vitro to determine their effects upon phagocytosis of 32P-labelled Staphylococcus aureus by neutrophils isolated from bovine blood and milk.
(18) Get used to seasoning your food with herbs, spices and black pepper instead.
(19) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(20) Politicians, such as the Democratic senator Herb Kohl, have belatedly started to ask whether it is growing too fast too soon.