What is the meaning of ASCL. Phrases containing ASCL
See meanings and uses of ASCL!ASCL
ASCL
ASCL
ASCL
ASCL
ASCL
Acronyms & AI meanings
Saskatchewan Paintball Championship Circuit
Library Strategic Development Fund
Robust Locality Preserving Projection
Space-Alternating Generalized Expectation Maximization Algorithm
American Society of Andrology
International Maritime Training Center
Coulomb-Repulsion Perturbed Stationary State with Relativistic Effects
Final Fantasy Mailing List
France pour Christ
: Georgia Advisory Council on Libraries
ASCL
ASCL
ASCL
n.
An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion.
n.
The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaelis 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).
n.
Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
n.
A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.
n.
Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.
n.
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
n.
Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
n.
A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
n.
A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.
n.
A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin.
n.
A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
ASCL
ASCL