(n.) A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
(n.) Grass; herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(2) The cardiovascular pharmacology of two Chinese herbs, Salvia miltiorrhiza (SM) and Panax notoginseng (Burk) F. H. Chen (PNG) were studied both in vivo and in vitro.
(3) As LAM was composed of Kidney-tonifying herbs, all the subjects chosen fell into the pattern of Kidney-deficiency in TCM.
(4) These mutations, named herB, suppressed cer-6 replication in rnh+ bacteria.
(5) A better extractive technology was obtained after isolating and purifying the whole herb of Panax japonicum var.
(6) Clinacanthus nutans Burm, a herb reputed in Thailand and Malaysia to be "snakebite antidote" has been tested in vitro and in vivo for antivenin activity.
(7) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(8) In addition to insulin, there were 8 patients taking herbs to cure diabetes.
(9) This study examined the effects of the predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics on the use of health services by the elderly which includes hospital care, physician services, herb doctor services, self-medication with western drugs, and self-medication with herb drugs.
(10) Chinese medicinal preparation and Chinese patent medicine use traditional medicine and herb drugs as raw materials under the guide of pharmaceutical theory and is progressing into certain dose form according to the prescription book and confined method.
(11) Close to the smelters tree species accumulated more foliar fluoride than shrub species, which in turn accumulated more foliar fluoride than herb species.
(12) parsley, chives, thyme, fennel or another herb for the parsley.
(13) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
(14) Selective PK influence on membrane linked activation events in inflammatory effector cells could be the basis of anti-inflammatory and perhaps other biological activities reported with the herb.
(15) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
(16) 6)--a mixture of Chinese traditional herbs providing antipyretic and detoxifying action, showed principally normal ultrastructure in liver cells.
(17) Twenty-six herbal preparations made from 24 medicinal herbs, categorized as antipyretics in Chinese materia medica, were tested in vitro to determine their effects upon phagocytosis of 32P-labelled Staphylococcus aureus by neutrophils isolated from bovine blood and milk.
(18) Get used to seasoning your food with herbs, spices and black pepper instead.
(19) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(20) Politicians, such as the Democratic senator Herb Kohl, have belatedly started to ask whether it is growing too fast too soon.
Herbage
Definition:
(n.) Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.
(n.) The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Feces from infected calves and lambs were placed on pasture plots and samples of upper herbage, lower herbage, mat and soil were collected at five intervals per day throughout the daylight hours on 18 sample days over 12 months.
(2) At that time the herbage larval infectivity around inoculated cow pats deposited in May, June and July was subject to a reduction of 48%, 89% and 46%, respectively, compared with fungus-free control cow pats.
(3) Multiple regression analysis showed that 60 per cent of variation in D viviparus third stage larvae recovery from herbage was accounted for by known variables.
(4) Reduced trichostrongylid infection on herbage and in calves was obtained when first-season calves, grazing a common area of pasture, received low-dosage phenothiazine (PTZ) in two successive years.
(5) Partial correlations between disappearance of N, K, Ca, Mg and S after the 48-h incubation and herbage concentration were significant.
(6) Extrusa and hand-clipped herbage samples were similar (P greater than .10) in OMD during May and September, but OMD of extrusa was greater (P less than .05) during June, July and August compared to clipped samples.
(7) From the results of the herbage analysis and the worm burdens in parasite naive tracer calves introduced at the end of 18 months, it was clear that considerable numbers of infective larvae of Ostertagia ostertagi and Cooperia oncophora survived for at least 18 months on pastures not grazed at all.
(8) There was no significant difference in tryptophan content between herbage from two normal pastures and from three pastures in which outbreaks of fog fever occurred.
(9) Few infective larvae were recovered from the soil although appreciable numbers of larvae were recovered from the herbage.
(10) Contaminated herbage was eaten most when attractive herbage became scarce.
(11) Larvae were extracted by washing and sedimentation and counts expressed as number of larvae per kg dry herbage.
(12) The profile of the graph of larval availability in herbage paralleled those for temperature and rainfall, suggesting that larval peaks occurred when the temperature and availability of moisture were optimal.
(13) The effect of supplements on intake, digestibility, N retention, ADG and blood and body composition of growing lambs fed cut herbage or grazing KY 31 tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)
(14) The release of low molecular weight 137Cs species after in vitro incubation with rumen liquid for 4-8 h was 75-85% for grass, herbage and fungi, 30% for lichen and 10% for litter.
(15) A dramatic rise in L3 population size occurred on herbage near pats, 17-25 days after pat deposition.
(16) The number of infective O. ostertagi larvae in inoculated cow pats was reduced by 42% and herbage larval infectivity around them by 50-71% as compared with the corresponding parameters in control pats and surrounding herbage.
(17) Diets of fresh kale (Brassica oleracea) and ryegrass (Lolium perenne)-clover (Trifolium repens) herbage were fed to growing sheep in three experiments.
(18) The greatest numbers of larvae were recovered from herbage in August and September.
(19) This experiment indicates that a concentration of 2000 A. oligospora conidia per gram faeces results in a significant lowering of the herbage larval infectivity during the grazing season in Denmark.
(20) Numbers of infective C. oncophora larvae isolated from the pats as well as from the surrounding herbage were subject to an approximately ten-fold reduction as compared with numbers in fungus-free pats and herbage surrounding these.