What's the difference between impatiens and ornamental?

Impatiens


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Evidence is also presented which indicates that the actions of barbituric acid and the oxybarbiturates barbital, amytal, and seconal on Impatiens holstii pollen germination behaviour correlate well with certain aspects of the pharmacological literature concerning the actions of these organic compounds on the central nervous system (CNS).
  • (2) The chromosomes of the giant dorsal foot-pad cells of Tricholioproctia impatiens produce numerous extrachromosomal bodies which consist of a central spherical core of DNA surrounded by a ribonucleoprotein layer.
  • (3) impatiens is probably established in the collection area.
  • (4) This features are not exclusively found in these impatiens, but in spite of no specificity the authors mention the significance of this pathology with special reference to oral cancer.
  • (5) Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV) shares a number of properties with tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), the type species of the genus tospovirus within the family Bunyaviridae.
  • (6) Culiseta impatiens is reported for the first time from Maryland.
  • (7) Cadmium levels in the leaves of Celosia argentea, Crotalaria linifolia, Impatiens balsamina and Triumfetta pentandra showed a significant (linear) plant-soil relationship.
  • (8) A study of giant cells induced by the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, in roots of Impatiens balsamina was made by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (9) The nucleotide sequence of Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV) M RNA was determined from cDNA clones.
  • (10) A wild variety of Impatiens balsamina was found to be the most characteristic species on lead-zinc metal dumps, which can be regarded as a local 'bioindicator' for these metals.
  • (11) We developed and validated a jackknife procedure to test for existence of broad sense heritabilities and dominance or maternal effects influencing quantitative characters in Impatiens capensis.
  • (12) Swelling of and cytoplasmic streaming within the grain, germination pore expansion, and pollen tube emergence, in that order, constitute the normal germination pattern of Impatiens holstii pollen grains.
  • (13) Evidence is presented which demonstrates that the normal sequence of events which make up the normal germination pattern of Impatiens holstii pollen grains can be separated from each other by varying the concentrations of the oxybarbiturates amytal and seconal used.
  • (14) A description of cytokinesis in cells of roots of Impatiens balsamina is given, and the effect of caffeine on this process.

Ornamental


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
  • (2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
  • (3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
  • (4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
  • (5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
  • (6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
  • (7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
  • (8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
  • (9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
  • (10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
  • (11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
  • (12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
  • (13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
  • (14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
  • (15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
  • (16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
  • (17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • (18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
  • (19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
  • (20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.

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