What's the difference between capillaire and maidenhair?
Capillaire
Definition:
(n.) A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
(n.) Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extent of permeability, however, was appreciably greater in the capillaires as evidences by rapid extravasation of HRP into the surrounding neuropil extracellular spaces.
(2) Brain capillaires and their permeability to intravenously injected horseradish peroxidase, HRP, (MW: 40,000) were examined electron-microscopically in an attempt to find a structural explanation for the poorly developed blood-brain barrier in the hagfish, Myxine glutinosa.
(3) On the 35-40 th day, fine muscular fibres, connective tissue and capillaires of normal size can be found within the traumatic area.
Maidenhair
Definition:
(n.) A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you have crevices, crumbling walls or fractured concrete, try maidenhair spleenwort ( Asplenium trichomanes ), with its glossy bright green oval pinnae and purplish black stems.
(2) I also like the maidenhair fern Adiantum aleuticum ‘Imbricatum’ ; its wiry black stems have fronds that radiate out like spreading fingers.