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Chaff
Small, thin, dry, membranous scale or bracts, such as around the grains of grasses. Threshed or winnowed husks of grain (thin, dry scales or bracts). Small, membranous scales found upon the receptacle of some Compositae.
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Algal bloom
Rapid growth of algae in water, resulting in visible coating or coloring of the water.
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Composite flowers
flowers Flowers made up of usually 2 types of tiny florets, disc and ray; some have disc florets only.
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Basal leaves
Leaves growing from the base of the stem. Leaves at the lower portion of an herbaceous plant, arising from many nodes separated by exceedingly small internodes occurring at about surface level. Leaves that form from the crown.
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Tonify
Strengthens and restores body systems.
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Terpenes
Molecules that form the base of most constituents of volatile oils. Any of a group of hydrocarbons that are made up of building blocks of isoprene (C5H8) or similar five-carbon units, with a monoterpene made up of two units (example: limonene and pinene ), a sesquiterpene made up of three units (example: humulene, a Hops…
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Physiomedicalism
19th- and 20th-century American and British system of herbal medicine.
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Photosensitive
Heightened sensitivity to sunlight. Sensitive to light, or stimulated by light.
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Mydriatic
Dilates the pupil of the eye. A drug which makes the pupil of the eye become larger. Drug (e.g., atropine) that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid examination of the eye and to treat certain eye disorders. A drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate. Examples are…
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Intermittent fever
A fever that recurs regularly, e.g., malaria. Fever which rises and falls regularly, as in malaria. Fever in which symptoms disappear completely between paroxysms.
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