What's the difference between heather and hypericum?
Heather
Definition:
(n.) Heath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heather De Mian, who has live-streamed the months of protests after Brown’s death, was among seven people detained by officers outside the Ferguson police department, according to observers.
(2) Heather Titley said she saw Cameron grab the collar of Noye's shirt and scuffle with him at the Swanley interchange of the M25.
(3) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(4) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.
(6) However, as Heather Wildsmith of the National Autistic Society says: “There’s definitely momentum.
(7) 1.20pm BST My colleague Heather Stewart writes: Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has delivered an emergency quarter-point cut in interest rates in a bid to kickstart the recession-hit eurozone economy.
(8) The long days here – Scotland has four hours more daylight than London during summer – are driest and sunniest in May and June, although July is the warmest and August is the time to catch the purple of the Highland heather.
(9) Top of the list of concerns will be the FA investigation into the independent board’s Heather Rabbatts , the chair of the IAB, which was launched after a complaint from two FA councillors about her criticism of the FA’s handling of the Carneiro case.
(10) Heather Sohl, WWF-UK's chief species adviser, said of the latest figures: "The scale of poaching we are now seeing is extremely worrying.
(11) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
(12) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
(13) The chair of the FA’s inclusion advisory board, Heather Rabbatts, has expressed her “sadness and anger” at news of Carneiro’s departure.
(14) Heather Abbott, an amputee, said that she did not care about Tsarnaev’s fate.
(15) There are oceans between us and Isis,” former White House official Heather Hurlburt told the Guardian.
(16) More than a decade later when Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies was published in the US a similar outcry followed, and the book was banned from libraries in many states.
(17) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
(18) Observer economics editor Heather Stewart explains: When the US Federal Reserve starts to phase out its $85bn-a-month quantitative easing programme it could spark a rapid rise in global interest rates and “fire sales” of assets across the world’s financial markets, according to the International Monetary Fund.
(19) The jury was told that the News of the World had hacked phones to obtain a story about Paul McCartney having a row with his then wife Heather Mills and throwing their engagement ring out of a hotel window: the prosecution failed to take account of evidence in the possession of the police which indicated the paper had bought the story from someone who worked in the hotel.
(20) Heather Sidery Clarke, from Hastings, said: "Apart from being such unnecessary and primitively barbaric behaviour, genital mutilation is, in this day, a violent crime.
Hypericum
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hypericum extract enhanced the exploratory activity of mice in a foreign environment, significantly prolonged the narcotic sleeping time dose-dependently, and within a narrow dose range exhibited reserpine antagonism.
(2) Novoimanine is an antibacterial drug from Hypericum perforatum L. When used in the bacteriostatic concentration, i.e.
(3) A new antibiotic compound, sarothralin G from Hypericum japonicum Thunb.
(4) In addition, a key to the characteristics of the whole plants of Eclipta, Alternanthera, Wedelia and Hypericum plants are hereby given.
(5) These compounds showed almost the same activity as the chinesins which were isolated from Hypericum chinese L. The correlation between the structures and activity was studied in the synthesized and naturally occurring phloroglucinol derivatives.
(6) The preparation of Hypericum perforatum L. has been shown to possess radioprotective properties.
(7) Extracts of Hypericum perforatum (Psychotonin M) (St. John's wort) with known concentrations of hypericin were tested in several models generally accepted as screening methods in experimental animal studies for the recognition of psychotropic, and in particular of antidepressant activity.
(8) Hexane extracts of Hypericum drummondii showed significant activity against the Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, and the acid-fast bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis in an agar well diffusion assay.
(9) Procanidin fractions (PC) were isolated from Hypericum perforatum L. (Guttiferae).
(10) Semi-preparative high-performance liquid chromatography on RP-18 with methanol-water as the mobile phase was used for the separation of homologous antifungal chromenes and related homologous dichromenes from Hypericum revolutum Vahl (Guttiferae).
(11) Among these effective herbs, 10 were aqueous extracts of Artemisia anomala, Centella asiatica, Epimedium Sagittatum, Hibiscus mutabilis, Hosta plantaginea, Hypericum japonicum, Inula japonica, Mosla punctata, Rhododendron simsii, and Rhus chinenses, while 3 were alcohol extracts of Epimedium Sagittatum, Hypericum japonicum, and Mosla punctata.
(12) Bioactivity-guided fractionation of the hexane extract of the stems and leaves of Hypericum drummondii has afforded four new filicinic acid derivatives: drummondin D, isodrummondin D, drummondin E, and drummondin F. The structures of these compounds were established by spectroscopic methods.
(13) The preparation Hypericum perforatum L. has been shown to decrease the intensity level of enzymatic and non-enzymatic processes of lipid peroxidation of rat liver microsomes in vitro and in vivo.
(14) The new phloroglucinol derivative 1 has been isolated from the light petroleum ether extract of the aerial parts of Hypericum calycinum.
(15) Two aromatic polycyclic diones hypericin and pseudohypericin have potent antiretroviral activity; these substances occur in plants of the Hypericum family.
(16) Hypericin and pseudohypericin which have been isolated from plants of the Hypericum family are aromatic polycyclic diones.
(17) The presented data in addition to the already proven clinical efficacy justify the use of standardised Hypericum extract in the treatment of mild to moderate depression.
(18) Similar to most other antidepressants, hypericum extract enhanced significantly the activity of mice in the water wheel test and after a prolonged daily administration decreased aggressiveness in socially isolated male mice.
(19) Drummondin C (1) is an antibiotic isolated from a bioassay-directed fractionation of Hypericum drummondii (Grev.
(20) Both the in-vitro tests as well as the in-vivo tests--fur spot test of the mouse and the chromosome aberration test with the bone marrow cells of the chinese hamster--were negative, giving completely no indication of a mutagenic potential of Hypericum extract.