(n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
(n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(2) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
(3) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(5) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(6) Daisy just wanted to work and whenever she got cast in anything we all applauded.” His student film-makers were really excited seeing her pop up on Casualty, he says; imagine how they will feel when they see her lead the new Star Wars film.
(7) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(8) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(9) He sounds fresh as a daisy, which is kind of insane.
(10) This interface required daisy chained controllers for port switching and a communications adapter for flow control.
(11) Is Rey (Daisy Ridley), the young woman striking an unlikely alliance with Finn (John Boyega), the guy in the stormtrooper gear, Luke’s child?
(12) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(13) Older and shrewder by the late 2000s, the early 90s pioneers involved in Hard Events and Insomniac (the company behind Electric Daisy Carnival) learned how to work with the system, going through the bureaucratic hoops required to get permits, and providing the level of intensive security, entrance searches and overall safety provisions that would give political cover to their local government enablers.
(14) Daisy Sands, policy director of the Fawcett Society, blamed hurdles for women which included "discrimination at the selection process".
(15) Look closer, though, and you'll see Super Soakers pre-pumped by runners, and Daisy Dukes with their top buttons carefully, carelessly undone.
(16) And although that is still very much the case, I was really hoping this could be a movie that mothers could take their daughters to as well.” Where the original Star Wars trilogy featured Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia as one of the main supporting characters, Abrams has introduced the mysterious Rey, played by British actor Daisy Ridley, in what appears to be a genuine lead role.
(17) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(18) Passenger Daisy McAndrew said she had been caught in the "unholy mess" at Gatwick as she tried to fly to Barcelona for work.
(19) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
(20) Daisy Goodwin, ex BBC producer, founder of independent producer Silver River, now majority owned by Sony A historic move?
Feverfew
Definition:
(n.) A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bioassay based on inhibition of the secretory activity of blood platelets by extracts of feverfew in comparison with parthenolide was also used.
(2) Extracts of the herb feverfew inhibit human blood platelet aggregation and secretion induced by a number of agents in-vitro and this may relate to the beneficial effects of feverfew in migraine.
(3) The results indicate that feverfew may have a vasoprotective effect in addition to its effects on platelets.
(4) Seventeen patients who ate fresh leaves of feverfew daily as prophylaxis against migraine participated in a double blind placebo controlled trial of the herb: eight patients received capsules containing freeze dried feverfew powder and nine placebo.
(5) Patch tests were negative for another 30 plants, including cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium), dog fennel (Anthemis cotula, fleabane (Erigeron strigosus), sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale), and feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium).
(6) The precise nature of the sulphydryl groups that are susceptible to feverfew and are involved in platelet aggregation and the release reaction have not yet been defined.
(7) Extracts of feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) inhibited secretory activity in blood platelets and polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs).
(8) Feverfew itself did not induce the formation of disulphide-linked protein polymers in platelets but polymer formation occurred when aggregating agents were added to feverfew-treated platelets.
(9) Three physicochemical methods (HPLC, NMR spectroscopy, and HPLC of a derivative) have been used to measure parthenolide in authenticated Tanacetum parthenium (feverfew) and in several commercial purported feverfew products.
(10) They also modify the interaction of platelets with collagen substrates: feverfew extracts inhibit both platelet spreading and formation of thrombus-like platelet aggregates on the collagen surface.
(11) Crude chloroform extracts of fresh feverfew leaves (rich in sesquiterpene lactones) and of commercially available powdered leaves (lactone-free) produced dose-dependent inhibition of the generation of thromboxane B2 (TXB2) and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) by ionophore- and chemoattractant-stimulated rat peritoneal leukocytes and human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
(12) It is a simple, inexpensive, and reproducible high-throughput bioassay suitable for quality control of feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium, a crude drug with proven migraine prophylactic activity that is being considered for governmental registration and regulation.
(13) Inhibition of anti-IgE-induced histamine release by feverfew extract was observed when the drug was added simultaneously with anti-IgE and the inhibitory activity increased only slightly when the drug was preincubated with the cells for 5 min before anti-IgE stimulation.
(14) It was shown that feverfew extract (FE) inhibited the deposition of [51Cr]-labelled platelets on both CIII and CIV in a dose-dependent way.
(15) Positive patch test reactions were 2+ for dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), false ragweed (Ambrosia acanthicarpa), giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida), short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisifolia), sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), wild feverfew (Parthenium hysterophorus), yarrow (Achillea millifolium), and tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) and 1+ for Dahlia species and English ivy (Hedera helix).
(16) In this respect feverfew differs from cromoglycate and quercetin.
(17) There was a highly significant variance between the frequencies of SCE in the matched pairs of migraine patients but this was not related to age, sex or feverfew exposure.
(18) Parthenolide appears to be mainly responsible for the antisecretory effects of extracts of feverfew.
(19) The pharmacological properties of feverfew may thus be due to cytotoxicity, although the time course of the events described in this paper is different from those where feverfew appears to have more specific inhibitory effects.
(20) Two elderly individuals suffering from acute recurrent dermatitis of light-exposed skin between spring and autumn were shown to be allergic to feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) of the Compositae family.