What's the difference between majusculae and majuscule?
Majusculae
Definition:
(n. pl.) Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lyngbya majuscula and Croton cuneatus were used as prototypes for the dereplication of phorbol ester receptor binding activity using a combination of hplc-uv and online phorbol dibutyrate (PDBu) receptor binding and batch fractionation over either Si gel or diolbonded Si gel.
(2) Microcolin A [1] and microcolin B [2] are new immunosuppressive lipopeptides isolated from a Venezuelan sample of the blue-green alga Lyngbya majuscula.
(3) A highly inflammatory and vesicatory substance, lyngbyatoxin A, has been isolated from the lipid extract of a Hawaiian shallow-water variety of Lyngbya majuscula Gomont; its gross structure was determined from chemical and spectral data.
(4) Cutaneous inflammation was induced by debromoaplysiatoxin, a purified toxin extracted from Lyngbya majuscula Gomont.
(5) This compound also has dermonecrotic activity and may be the dermatitis-producing substance in L. majuscula, the causative agent of "swimmers' itch" outbreaks in Hawaiian waters.
(6) The causative agents of swimmer's itch were isolated from the marine blue-green alga, Lyngbya majuscula, which grows off the coast of the Okinawa islands, Japan.
Majuscule
Definition:
(n.) A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculae.