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A plant of the genus Allium A sativum is the cultivated variety having a bulbous root a very strong smell and an acrid pungent taste Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs called cloves of garlic inclosed in a common membranous coat and easily separable...
brierwood
wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea it is used to make tobacco pipes See also 2nd brier and brier root...
Ipecacuanha
The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb Cephaeumllis Ipecacuanha largely employed as an emetic also the plant itself also a medicinal extract of the root Many other plants are used as a substitutes among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac Psychotria emetica the white ipecac Ionidium Ipecacuanha the bastard or wild ipecac Asclepias Curassavica and the undulated ipecac Richardsonia scabra...
Polyphyletic
Pertaining to or characterized by descent from more than one root form or from many different root forms polygenetic opposed to monophyletic...
Radical
Of or pertaining to the root proceeding directly from the root...
Sesquiplicate
Subduplicate of the triplicate a term applied to ratios thus a and a are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b when a is to a as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b or aaradicb3radicb3...
Plant
Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation or process, Steel City Beverages Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1996) 1 Pat LJR 868.Plant, has frequently been used in fiscal and other legislation. It is one of a fairly large category of words as to which no statutory definition is provided ('trade', office even 'income' are others), so that it is left to the court to interpret them. It naturally happens that as case follows case, and one extension leads to another, the meaning of the word gradually diverges from its natural or dictionary meaning. This is certainly true for plant, I.R.C. v. Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd., (1982) 1 WLR 322: (1982) 2 All ER 230: 55 TC 252 (HL).Plant, in the relevant sense, although admitted not a term of art, and therefore part of the general English tongue, is not, in this sense, an ordinary word, but one of imprecise application, an...
Glycyrrhizin
A glucoside found in licorice root Glycyrrhiza in monesia bark Chrysophyllum in the root of the walnut etc and extracted as a yellow amorphous powder of a bittersweet taste...
Extirpate
To pluck up by the stem or root to root out to eradicate literally or figuratively to destroy wholly as to extirpate weeds to extirpate a tumor to extirpate a sect to extirpate error or heresy...
Disroot
To tear up the roots of or by the roots hence to tear from a foundation to uproot...
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