(n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of Clematis fusca (Clematis fusca Turcz.)
(2) The result shows that the major components of the essential oil from Inula nervosa are thymol and thymol isobutyrate, while the major components of the essential oil from Clematis hexapetala are palmitic acid and 3-hydroxy-4-methoxyl benzaldehyde.
(3) Of the 19 plants tested, only 6 induced clinical signs of illness; these plants included yew, oleander, clematis, avocado, black locust, and Virginia creeper (Taxus media, Nerium oleander, Clematis sp, Persea americana, Robinia pseudoacacia, Parthenocissus quinquefolio).
(4) Five influential gardeners and their solutions… Beth Chatto Beth Chatto, plantswoman and writer Save water from the house in buckets, buy a water butt and reserve water for plants you value most, such as delphinium, clematis and dahlias.
(5) Clematoside-S, a new triterpenoid saponin from the roots of Clematis grata, has been identified by chemical and spectroscopic methods as hederagenin-3-O-beta-D-ribopyranosyl (1----3)-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl(1----2)-alpha-L-arabinopyranoside .
(6) The pharmacological and pathological effects of Bupleurum chinense, Phellodendron wilsonii, Clematis chinensis and Hedyotis corymbosa were analyzed by liver enzyme function test and pathological studies.
(7) Chemical components of the essential oils from clematis hexapetala and Inula nervosa were analyzed by using GC-MS-DS.
(8) However, the results of amine transferase SGOT and SGPT have shown a significant hepatic protective effect after treatment with Bupleurum chinense (P less than 0.005), Phellodendron wilsonii (P less than 0.001), Clematis chinensis (P less than 0.005) and Hedyotis corymbosa (P less than 0.005, SGPT only).
(9) In 2005 they moved out of London, first to a cottage in Devon, and then to the Somerset farmhouse they live in now, two stories of grey stone and clematis set on a smallholding of five acres, where the Little Exe and the Barle rivers meet, becoming the Exe.
(10) The dried roots and rhizomes of Clematis chinensis Osbeck, Clematis hexapetalo Pall, and Clematis manshurica Rupr, 21 samples of "wei ling xian" of six different species which were collected from different regions of China, were extracted with methanol.
(11) The cardiovascular pharmacology of aqueous extracts of Desmodium styracifolium (DSE) and Clematis chinensis (CCE) were studied in rats both in vivo and in vitro.
Liana
Definition:
(n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier this year, Liana Kanelli, an outspoken Communist party MP, was assaulted during a live TV talkshow by Ilias Kasidiaris, Golden Dawn's spokesman, in an incident that made headlines around the world.
(2) In an atmosphere bristling with the discordant feelings of anger and fear, the assault on Rena Dourou and Liana Kanelli, deputies with the radical Syriza and KKE communist parties, has added an explosive element to an election campaign that is already electric and has also illuminated the dark role of Golden Dawn.
(3) Kasidiaris had gone to ground after a state prosecutor ordered his arrest on charges of grievous bodily harm following Thursday's televised assault of Liana Kanelli, the spokeswoman of the KKE communist party, and Rena Dourou, a leading member of the Syriza party.
(4) Everything seemed completely normal – until he noticed the green liana which had grown from the pot plant and reached his body.
(5) Laudable goals such as a national intervention order scheme risk being undermined by a continuing crisis in legal assistance funding that has not been fixed by the partial withdrawal by federal attorney general George Brandis of threatened cuts that were to take effect in July,” said the executive officer of the federation of community legal centres Victoria, Liana Buchanan.
(6) He then turned on Liana Kanelli, an MP with the KKE communist party, who stood up to condemn the action.
(7) She said the actions of Kasidiaris, spokesman for the Golden Dawn party , who has been in hiding since he assaulted Dourou and Liana Kanelli on the popular Good Morning Greece TV show, revealed the "true nature" of group, which captured 7% of the vote during Greece's general election last month.
(8) According to reports, staff at the TV station tried to keep him in the building when Kasidiaris fled the studio moments after lashing out at Liana Kanelli, the spokeswoman of the KKE communist party, and Rena Dourou, a leading member of the radical Syriza party.
(9) In a nation where physical violence is rare – and public displays of violence against women even rarer – Kasidiaris's assault on Liana Kanelli and Rena Dourou, during a live TV debate of politicians representing the seven parties that won seats in the country's inconclusive 6 May election, had clearly shocked Greeks .
(10) Liana Buchanan, executive officer of the federation of community legal centres in Victoria, told Guardian Australia in April that the scheme risked being undermined by a “continuing crisis” in legal assistance funding.
(11) Family violence Liana Buchanan, of the federation of community legal centres, said for a change of leadership to be meaningful, all women facing family violence must be entitled to free legal help from community legal centres.
(12) At the Rio Blanco in Northeastern Peru a group of 6 saddle-back tamarins was observed to mob two Corallus enydris snakes which were hanging from a liana.
(13) Meanwhile, the Jakarta Post claims the three most likely candidates are former foreign minister Nur Hassan Wirajuda, Agus Purnomo, head of the National Council on Climate Change and a special staff member to the president on climate issues and Liana Bratasida, deputy environment minister.
(14) An application to the identification of the trees and lianas of the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats (India) is presented to illustrate the problems encountered in the development of the knowledge base.
(15) The party's image has been severely dented by continuous replays of footage of the 31-year-old Kasidiaris, a former army commando, striking the middle-aged Communist party deputy Liana Kannelli three times.
(16) The chief executive of the Federation of Community Legal Centres, Liana Buchanan, said she was appalled by Cash’s comments that a “misleading campaign” had been run.