(n.) The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Major results of these studies are presented for the following plants: Garlic, Geranium; Hellebore; Mistletoe; Olive; Valerian; Hawthorn; Pseucedanum arenarium; Periwinkle; Fumitory.
Herbaceous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Volumetric levels of pollens derived from broad-leaved herbaceous plant species heve been determined at a midwestern urban site with suction and rotating arm samplers.
(2) Drinks at Jade Bar are in keeping with the spa setting: fruity and herbaceous “muddles” (alcoholic or not) are a speciality, and the bartenders host mixology sessions on Sundays, or by appointment.
(3) In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, larvae and nymphs of Ablyomma marmoreum Koch occur in habitats in which there is tree cover and herbaceous ground cover.
(4) Farmers are battling with new and variant diseases, and globalisation has meant a huge increase in the risk of new plant diseases, affecting everything from crops to people's herbaceous borders.
(5) Sieve cells and sieve tube members can be macerated from the phloem of various organs of woody and herbaceous species by autoclaving the tissue in a mild macerating medium.
(6) Herbaceous taxa were well represented in the atmospheric sample.
(7) Beware, however, that even if you manage to remove a large proportion of the blighters, they are likely to repopulate your herbaceous borders alarmingly quickly.
(8) Based on an inferred phylogeny, the catalytic domain of ChiX is more closely related to the basic chitinases of herbaceous plants than are either Win6 or Win8.
(9) Bacteria were obtained from 30% of the ovules, 15% of the seeds of herbaceous plants, 16% of the seeds of woody plants, 5.4% of the overwintered noncereal seeds, and 13.5% of overwintered cereal seeds.
(10) Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDS) were used to localize manganese from KMnO4, and bromine, as ultrastructural stains for lignin in an herbaceous plant.
(11) It might be tricky to limit your time at this Elizabethan mansion, with its parkland sculpture trails, wonderful herbaceous borders and a prize-winning produce garden.
(12) Herbaceous piths appear to be a vital resource for African forest apes, offering an alternative energy supply when fruits are scarce.
(13) The botanical origin specified in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia (1985 edition) includes the dried herbaceous stems of Ephedra sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge and E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey.
(14) Practise the "Chelsea chop" (so called because it is done around Flower Show time, the end of May), according to how much growth has developed, cutting back by half herbaceous plants such as the taller sedums, asters, phlox, heleniums and chrysanthemums to reduce transpiration and encourage them to make bushier plants that won't need staking.
(15) Most fruity, floral, minty, and herbaceous odorants stimulate the enzyme.
(16) Infusions and decoctions of the leaves, roots and inflorescences of the herbaceous shrub Chenopodium ambrosioides (American wormseed, goosefoot, epazote, paico) and related species indigenous to the New World have been used for centuries as dietary condiments and as traditional anthelmintics by native peoples for the treatment of intestinal worms.
(17) The method enabled the highly sensitive detection of a number of morphologically different viruses in purified preparations and in unclarified extracts of herbaceous hosts and of infected crop plants.
(18) It is also found that the degree of lignification of fibres and medullary cells of the herbaceous stems is related to the positions and diameters of the stems.
(19) In an attempt to correlate the high incidence of esophageal carcinoma in natives of certain places with their habit of using herbaceous folk medicines, we performed bioassays of several plant extracts and the fractions prepared from them.
(20) Chinese herbal remedies are derived from animal, mineral, as well as arboreous and herbaceous sources.